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Reflections of the Career of a University Expatriate

Edu Alliance Journal

Graduate assistants and postdoctoral researchers are scarce in many localities without robust traditions of graduate education of their own. A professional network represents the best social safety net for an expatriate, and cultivating one is time well spent in those conditions. Import of laboratory equipment is costly.

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Why Worry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Future of English Departments Faced with sharply falling numbers of majors, many English departments are downplaying the traditional canon and pre-1800 (and sometimes pre-1900) literature and instead emphasizing Creative Writing, communication, media studies, global English language literature, and non-Western literature.