Briana Mohan takes a broad view of academe and careers and consider how graduate students and postdocs might best engage with the challenges of the present moment. More...
22 mai 2017
Your Ph.D. and Work Experience Are Great Life Experience: Part 3
Stop the Syllabus, I Want to Catch Up
The classrooms that we as professors have tried to create -- spaces where inequities are voiced and the status quo challenged -- are becoming reality, writes Lynn Cockett. The problem is we now represent that status quo. More...
Truths to Be Told: The Path to Graduate School
Terri E. Givens describes her advancement through high school and college -- and how Ph.D. programs should value students from unconventional backgrounds who take on more than expected. More...
The CEO-ization of the President’s Contract
Employment agreements for presidents are becoming increasingly complex and bear little resemblance to the typical appointment letters for faculty leaders or other senior administrators, write James Finkelstein and Judith Wilde. More...
My Professor, the Sexual Predator
Academic departments normalize sexual violence when they look the other way as faculty members abuse their power in harassing or assaulting junior faculty and/or students, argues Donovan A. Steinberg. More...
Defining ‘Harm’ in the Tuvel Affair
The philosophers who sought the retraction of a colleague’s article comparing transgender identity to transracialism have done the real damage in this situation, José Luis Bermúdez writes. More...
The Approaching Storm? Or Impending Drought?
If recent events are any indication, students who serve as resident advisers are mad as hell and may not be willing to take it anymore, warns Lee Burdette Williams. Can we manage residence halls without them. More...
Making the Second Time the Charm
The second chance for year-round Pell Grants also means a new opportunity for the U.S. Department of Education to get implementation right this go-round, Ben Miller writes. More...
What Makes an Open Lab 'Open'?
As public universities divert resources into new kinds of learning spaces, they should promote collaborative and mutually enriching connections among students and institutions, write Robin DeRosa and Dan Blickensderfer. More...
Post-Truth and First-Year Writing
Such a class can provide a model for constructive, fact-based public discourse and stand as a model of principled resistance in a “fake news” era, argues John Duffy. More...
