By Jennifer Polk. I had this intention vaguely in mind recently when I attended the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the annual gathering of more than seventy Canadian scholarly associations. I went to Ottawa because I was invited to speak at the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education’s graduate student pre-conference; I stayed to network. More...

By Jennifer Polk. What did you hope for in terms of employment as you completed your PhD?
As completed my Ph.D. I was hoping for a teaching-centric college job. I wanted to be the typical liberal arts college history professor: small classes, idyllic campus, working closely with students and doing some interesting research and writing, but not so much that I was never around. More...

By Ashleigh Vanhouten. At Congress, a popular Career Corner seminar gives actionable advice on how to increase the quantity, quality and enjoyment of your writing. More...

By Andrew Park. Have political events ever made you so mad that you either had to stop reading the newspapers or step up and do something? If you have, and if you are anything like me, your initial flush of anger diminished after a while, but left you marinating in a toxic stew of discontent. More...

By Brian Stevenson. Brazil understands that investing in international study is a path to global competitiveness. More...

By Bruce Tsuji. The newer iterations are a much better use of the medium.
MOOC madness has taken a turn for the better.  Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) entered public debate in 2012 when Coursera, Khan Academy and Udacity, together with a number of prominent U.S. universities (Harvard, MIT) started to offer free online courses to anyone. More...