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•   Secrets to Navigating Campus Politics
  What are new professionals lacking when they enter careers in higher education? That question was asked last month at the NASPA Annual Conference in Orlando during a session called "What Does It Mean to be a New Professional?" The answer most often given by speakers at the annual gathering of student affairs administrators in higher education is something that all professionals in academia should observe.
•   Expertise and Meta-Lessons: Two Elements of Great Teaching
  I have always hated that H. L. Mencken quote-become-a-cliché, "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach." What galls me is not just its cavalier anti-intellectualism and mindless denigration of teachers, but the fact that it is a lie....
•   Don't Be a Job Seeker, Be a Person of Talent
  Employers address you that way on their corporate sites. Recruiters use the very same term to describe applicants for their openings. But, you should never ever accept the label. Don't let anyone categorize you as a "job seeker." Compel them to see you as a "person of talent" instead.
• Do You Lose the Education of Athletes in the Madness of March?
  How is a successful balance between academics and athletics reached on campus? Our guest this month, Beth Goode, senior associate athletic director and senior woman administrator at Stanford, explains how her university focuses on developing a student-athlete as an overall person, which means cultivating and strengthening values to succeed both in the classroom and in the student-athlete's chosen sport...
• Median Salary Up Two Percent for Higher Education Professionals
  Salaries are up again for mid-level administrators in higher education. This is according to data released today, March 25, by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR).
• Fifty Faculty and Administrators Named to ACE's Fellows Program
  With higher education changing more rapidly than experts could imagine, it's important that great leaders emerge. But how do you identify them?
  
  The American Council on Education (ACE) has identified leaders through i...
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