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March 14, 2011

Monday roundup

A weekly collection of interesting things I find around the Internet. Find something I didn’t? I’d love to hear about it the comments!

What people were talking about this week

The median salary for public-higher-education faculty was stagnant for the second year in a row. Private-school faculty saw a small median increase.

Lennard Davis offers his strategies for helping his graduate students position themselves well for the job market.

A panel at the American Council of Education said a large number of faculty are set to retire over the next decade, but they may not go willlingly. Where have we heard that one before?

A former acquisitions editor at a scholarly press talks about the often-ignored importance of writing to getting your book published.

Although women earn slightly more than 50% of the PhDs in the US, they make up less than half of senior faculty and significantly more than half of adjunct faculty.

Advice on writing academic cover letters.

Tenured Radical thinks about networking in academia.

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