By Elizabeth Suárez. How many of us wake up in the morning ready to confront conflict? My guess is not many. Unfortunately, we live in a world where conflict surrounds us on a daily basis. Read more...

By Stephanie Butler Velegol. I received my B.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering and spent 10 years of schooling getting my scientific questions answered and asking new questions without any problems. Read more...

By Joseph Barber. One of the common challenges that Ph.D. students and postdocs face is being able to make certain and confident career decisions that differ from those their thesis advisers support or promote. Read more...

By Melissa Dennihy. Conference presentations, oral examinations and the dissertation defense are all useful opportunities to practice talking about your research before entering the academic job market. But when job seekers apply for positions at teaching institutions, research may not be the primary topic of discussion during an interview. Read more...

By Kerry Ann Rockquemore. Overworked, exhausted, dejected? If so, you may be treating your job like it's your whole life instead of one piece of a much larger pie, advises Kerry Ann Rockquemore. Read more...

By Monica F. Jacobe. When people hear about a new publication of mine, they are first surprised and then come to one of two conclusions: I must be trying to write my way back into faculty work, or I think publications serve the next step in my administrative career. Read more...

By Peter Eckel and Cathy Trower. Governing boards are dynamic groups of individuals where, sometimes, the whole does not equal the sum of its parts. Read more...

By Scott McLemee. The folklore of Indonesia and Thailand tells of a frog who is born under half of a coconut-shell bowl and lives out his life there. In time, he draws the only sensible conclusion: the inside of the shell is the whole universe. Read more...

By Daphne Patai and Harvey Silverglate. The transition of American college campuses from centers of liberal arts education to ideological training camps has taken a major step forward with a recent redefinition of what counts as social and cultural diversity in courses that wish to receive general education credits at the flagship University of Massachusetts campus in Amherst. Read more...

By Wick Sloane. I don’t have a clever lead paragraph for an essay about an oversubscribed conference on college-student hunger and homelessness in 2016 in the wealthiest nation on earth. Read more...