Life in Academia
General
Yates, John W. "Pottering and Prayer," Christianity Today, April 2, 2003. (pdf)
As John Stott turns 80, he still finds weeds to pull, birds to watch, and petitions to make.
Rachel Toor's list of Chronicle articles
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Bartlett, Thomas “Big, but Not Bad,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 9, 2003.
The best teaching doesn’t always happen around a seminar table.
Bartlett, Thomas “Please Take My Advice” The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 11, 2005.
5 books for professors who want to improve their teaching.
Benton, Thomas “Principled Mediocrity,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 11, 2005.
How many of us, as teachers, have encountered a student or younger colleague with talents greater than our own?
Borden, Richard J. “The Art of Deanship,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 8, 2005.
Defoe, Tony, "The truth is, you gave a lousy talk," The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 21, 2007.
Evans, David G. “How Not to Reward Outstanding Teachers,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 20, 2005.
Fish, Stanley “Who's in Charge Here?” The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 4, 2005.
The evaluation of teaching by students amounts to a whole lot of machinery with a small and dubious yield.
Germano, William, “How to Be An Author,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 18, 2008.
Once you’ve finished writing a book, part of your job is to promote it.
Gray, Paul and David E. Drew, “What They Didn’t Teach You in Graduate School,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 15, 2008.
Hampel, Robert L. “In Search of New Frontiers: How Scholars Generate Ideas,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 19, 2008.
Lee, Imogden V. “Joining the Club,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 14, 2005.
A Ph.D. in the humanities who took a corporate job wonders, Was I lucky or did I sell out?
Malesic, Jonathan, "A Scholarly Book and a 4/4 Teaching Load", The Chronicle of Higher Education
McClain, Lee Tobin “Surviving Faculty Meetings,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 26, 2007.
Messner, Michael A. “Besides, I Just Don't Like You,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 20, 2005.
Nesteruk, Jeffrey “Midlife in Academe,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 8, 2005.
Parini, Jay “Office Hours: a Professor's Education,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 26, 2003.
Parini, Jay “The Unbearable Importance of Grading ,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 15, 2008.
Perlmutter, David D. "Your 50-Year Career Plan," The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 27, 2007.
Holding his father's 1952 dissertation in hand helps a scholar understand the importance of taking the long view.
Perlmutter, David D. “Why Would Anyone Write a Book on That?” The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 17, 2005.
Schmidt, Thomas “How Not to Write a Second Book,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 30, 2007.
A tenured professor warns about the dangers of organizing your career too ruthlessly around short-term success.
Sperber, Murray “Notes From a Career in Teaching,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 9, 2005.
Vincent, Clement “Don’t Judge a Book By Its Editor,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 26, 2007.
Shouldn’t untenured junior faculty members be writing books, not editing them?
Worsham, Lynn "What Editors Want," The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 8, 2008.
A journal editor reveals the most common mistakes academics make when they submit manuscripts.
Teaching
Teaching Resource Center of the University of Virginia
This site provides a categorized list of topics covered by articles in Teaching Concerns. Teaching Concerns is published once per semester by the Teaching Resource Center for faculty and teaching assistants at the University of Virginia. It serves as a medium for dissemination of teaching tips, essays, book reviews, announcements and deadlines, as well as other teaching related information.
All of the articles for each issue are available in HTML and most in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat Reader is required). Access the printer-friendly PDF files by clicking on the Adobe PDF icon at the beginning of each article.
Randolph, Madison, "Deadlines and Due Dates," The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 25, 2005.
In academe, the work of teaching and research never really ends, and that is the reward.
Plagiarism
Bartlett, Thomas and Scott Smallwood, “Four Academic Plagiarists You've Never Heard Of: How Many More Are Out There?” The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 17, 2004.
Bartlett, Thomas and Scott Smallwood, “Mentor vs. Protégé,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 17, 2004.
The professor published the student's words as his own. What's wrong with that?
Glenn, David “How Long a Shadow Should Plagiarism Cast?” The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 17, 2004.
Glenn, David “The Price of Plagiarism,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 17, 2004.
Isserman, Maurice “Plagiarism: a Lie of the Mind,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 2, 2003.
McLemee, Scott “What Is Plagiarism?” The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 17, 2004.
Monaghan, Peter “University Presses Choose Caution in Responding to Accusations of Plagiarism,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 17, 2004.
The Worst Form of Flattery: Plagiarism is an academic sin that university-press officials dare not speak about too openly.
Thompson, Michael “Hidden in Plain Sight,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 2, 2005.
SafeAssign
On the SafeAssign website, professors can upload students' papers and have them matched with a database that determines whether any of what the students wrote is borrowed from a known written resources.