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Faculty Forum: Accreditation Fatigue

I have accreditation fatigue. My university and the college of education in which I teach are preparing for reviews by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the Florida Department of Education, and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.

From the General Secretary: What We do to Our Young

I believe in high standards for new faculty appointments and for tenure and promotion decisions. But I also believe that a growing number of institutions are using tenure standards as a lever to increase their status and are thereby compromising the future of our profession. And I believe that too often we are complicit in a process that does more harm to prospective and junior faculty than it does good for the profession as a whole.

Seriously, and Not So Seriously

Want to learn more about combining career and motherhood?

Mary Ann Mason, professor and co-director of the Center, Economics and Family Security at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, is the queen of research on women and tenure.

Her most recent book is Mothers on the Fast Track: How a New Generation Can Balance Family and Careers (Oxford Press, 2007).

Fighting Back: Negotiating under the Radar

Preserving contract language is far more important than fighting for insignificant pay increases.

But Can You Hit?

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?

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