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As you navigate this page, use the cluster of links under "Resources On" near the top left corner of the site. AAC&U organizes its work around four broad goals: LEAP: Liberal Education as a Global Necessity Quality: 21st Century Markers for the Value of US Degrees Equity: Innovation, Inclusive Excellence, and Student Success Social Responsibility: Integrative Liberal Learning for the Global Commons

"Sure, there is occasional resistance to the Ph.D. in the community-college setting. One colleague, like myself a Berkeley Ph.D., recalled that when she was initially hired, other instructors said things like, "People with doctorates won't want to come here, so let's not even bother giving them an interview," or "People with doctorates don't know how to teach." And yet, she had come to City College with many years' experience teaching both part-time and full-time, at two-year and four-year institutions."

"I hesitate for the obvious reasons: What I have to say may contradict the advice of many dissertation advisers, it will be potentially unwelcome, and (even worse) it will make me sound old."

"One of the most common questions I hear from graduate students, whether they are in their first or their final year, is what they can do now to prepare for the academic job market. Excellent question."

"I am a professor and a teacher; I think one should be both. Every day in preparation for my writing classes, I plan lessons, put together handouts and activities, hack around the required textbook, read low-stakes micro assignments, review discussion posts, hold office hours, conference with students, and grade what feels like the ever-growing and never-ending stack of essays naturally produced by five writing courses over the semester. I imagine that my experience is not unique among most of the people teaching outside the tenure-track at Research I institutions. "

Driving home from my last campus interview, I felt like Sarah Hughes making a perfect landing on her Olympic gold figure-skating routine. As a tenured associate professor of accounting and business at a small private college in the Midwest, I had ventured out on the job market for the first time in 18 years...

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