Leah Colvin provides advice for the times when upheavals in life change everything you thought you knew about your work self. More...
When Life Unbalances Your Work
Is Gender Bias an Intended Feature of Teaching Evaluations?
Every semester brings with it a new series of articles, blog posts and stories about gender and racial biases in teaching evaluations. A large and constantly growing body of academic literature demonstrates how bias shapes these tools. More...
Trading the Tenure Track for Tech
Chandra Y. Osborn explains why she walked away from a position at a prestigious university to join a tech start-up -- and what she learned about academic research along the way. More...
Family-Friendly Conferences
Few institutions and associations have considered the particular hurdles conference participation presents for women scholars with children, argue Angela L. Bos, Jennie Sweet-Cushman and Monica Schneider. More...
How to Talk to Students With Ill-Considered Beliefs
Simply presenting the facts is generally not effective in changing minds on a charged issue, writes Gleb Tsipursky. More...
Best Practices for Professional Email
My institution recently ran a comprehensive career-development program for our graduate students and postdocs. One of the workshop modules that our Ph.D.s valued most provided a general overview of communicating in the workplace. It advised them on some best practices to help smooth their transition to the next career destination. More...
My Journey With Department Service
A Ph.D. candidate describes the costs of doing service as a graduate student of color. More...
Midlife Ph.D. Programs and Minority Students
How do students evaluate the return on investment of pursuing a doctoral degree later in life? Gary A. Berg provides some answers. More...
Student (In)Civility in the Age of Trump
Pam Whitfield offers suggestions for faculty members about how to manage student behavior and keep students safe at a time of growing contention. More...
Let’s Stop Normalizing Student Debt
Why do academics accept and perpetuate the idea, asks Jessica Estep, that financial ruin should be the norm for humanities Ph.D.s. More...