Many more colleges have dedicated Title IX offices, writes Sara Matthiesen, but activists should also take a hard look at an overlooked but exceedingly powerful entity. More...
Title IX And Your Legal Counsel
Adjuncts as Allies?
Supporting and counseling students who’ve experienced sexual violence can be fraught with challenges for contingent faculty, writes Alexis Henshaw. More...
Don’t Network Like I Garden
Joseph Barber explains how, as with the plants in your garden, the people in your career network need nurturing to thrive. More...
Timekeeping as Feminist Pedagogy
Those same voices that are privileged in mainstream media, culture and politics, argues Danica Savonick, are also those that get the most speaking time in class. More...
Landing a Postdoctoral Fellowship
While securing one is becoming increasingly difficult, Keisha N. Blain offers several strategies to improve your odds of success. More...
A Year With the New MLA
We finally have a handbook that has writers thinking more critically about citation than we ever have before, writes Peter Wayne Moe.
The eighth edition of the Modern Language Association’s handbook created quite a lot of chatter upon its publication last year -- and rightfully so -- both on my campus and in the academic press. More...
Does Title IX Silence Sexual Assault Survivors?
Sexual assault takes away a victim’s power and agency, and to assist with their healing, universities need to affirm their agency and re-empower them, argues Cybill Rights. More...
Weaponizing Free Speech
By targeting the comments of presumably left-wing professors, the right is using free speech as part of their long-term strategy of delegitimizing higher education itself, writes Victor Ray. More...
Building Your Brand During a Career Transition
Finding your passion in one particular area and cultivating it more intensely is a useful strategy, advises Adriana Bankston. More...
Stranger in a Strange Land
If you want a classroom where students can speak freely and assess dangerous ideas, then you can't be a helicopter professor -- whether you’re a liberal, conservative or something in between, writes Francis J. Beckwith. More...