How do students evaluate the return on investment of pursuing a doctoral degree later in life? Gary A. Berg provides some answers. More...

Pam Whitfield offers suggestions for faculty members about how to manage student behavior and keep students safe at a time of growing contention. More...

Why do academics accept and perpetuate the idea, asks Jessica Estep, that financial ruin should be the norm for humanities Ph.D.s. More...

In June, several University of Michigan staff members who support students in their professional and career development in different schools and colleges across the university had the opportunity to learn the Designing Your Life curriculum from the Life Design Lab team at Stanford University. More...

We should help students make sense of not only the subject matter of our particular class but also how all their curricular and co-curricular activities fit together, writes Laura L. Behling. More...

Black scholars experience an ever-present tension between who we used to be and who we have become, writes Robert L. Reece. More...

Skills and knowledge gained from relevant work experience -- and not credentials -- are what will open doors and create opportunities for graduate degree holders, write Jennifer Polk and L. Maren Wood. More...

Previous successes demonstrate that members of a group have achieved goals together before and can do so again, writes Judith S. White. More...

Jennifer M. Gómez reflects on what she found to be a discriminatory job market -- and the resulting need for a greater allegiance to herself. More...

The career search is a mysterious process, and as the seeker it is easy to feel as if you have no control. And the longer the search goes on without a positive outcome, the more you can feel like the system is rigged against you. More...