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NAS's seventeenth entry in its Books With Spines series. Join us in selecting books about weapons.
Part 3: Service. When you join a committee, you either make your colleagues' workdays easier or make them harder. If the latter, they will remember the fact and it may very well come up at tenure time.
Part 2: Teaching. Sage-on-the-stage, the flipped classroom? No need for that. Just avoid a few crucial missteps. Plus: How to raise your students’ grades without inflating them. From First Things.
Part 1: Research. If you are an untenured humanities who is also a religious or social conservative, the bar is set higher for you. Mark Bauerlein is here to offer advice to the untenured professor.
In Minding the Campus, NAS president Peter Wood discusses authority on campus.
Frontier Centre for Public Policy releases a report illuminating the failed agenda of fossil fuel divestment.
It’s getting harder to tell the difference between real news about colleges and the Onion’s parodies.