The racism that ran rampant through my graduate program was like a swift, hard punch to the gut for me as a naïve, first-year graduate student. Read more...
'Playing The Game' for Black Grad Students
Help Is Right at Hand
Never again after graduate school will you have access to so many free, high-quality career development services, writes Melissa Dalgleish, who advises how to make the most of what your campus offers. Read more...
Tea and Sympathy
While it’s usually not mentioned in job descriptions or part of any formal training, a major part of the unofficial duties of faculty members involves helping students deal with personal challenges, writes Angela B. Fulk. Read more...
Supporting Academic Staff
Elizabeth H. Simmons offers advice on how deans, chairs and directors can make academics outside the tenure system feel valued, rewarded, included and consulted. Read more...
Amplifying the Voices of Sexual Violence Survivors
It is more important than ever that we in higher education work to make space for survivors to tell their stories, writes Eric Anthony Grollman. Read more...
Creating Space for Academic Babies
Academics must rid themselves of outdated gendered and racialized perceptions of working parents, argues Whitney N. Laster Pirtle. Read more...
Perfecting Your Panel Interview Game
Just about everyone is trying to cope with new circumstances and environments, writes Victoria Reyes, who provides some helpful advice. Read more...
10 Tips for Thriving, Not Just Surviving, in Graduate School
Just about everyone is trying to cope with new circumstances and environments, writes Victoria Reyes, who provides some helpful advice. Read more...
Balancing Leadership and Life
It’s possible to be an excellent administrative leader and still find time for leisure, health and social connections, write Joya Misra and Jennifer Lundquist, and here’s how. Read more...
Teaching Rape Culture
Helping students become familiar with the concept of rape culture provides an opportunity for them to recognize their own values and beliefs in action, writes Cat Pausé. Read more...