Last year at this time, I was still coping with the silence my carefully prepared job materials had elicited. Despite the years teaching (as a teaching assistant and also as an adjunct) at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University at Buffalo, despite the M.F.A. and Ph.D., despite the book I published, I wasn’t offered a single interview. It was crushing. More...

As president, Lori Varlotta takes most of her meetings out and about on the campus of Hiram College. More...

Is a bad handshake such a bad thing? Yes, and especially when the person whose hand you are shaking has a professionally firm one, writes Joseph Barber. More...

What is most valuable about them to professors, as well as to the institution, is that the process includes three accountability moments that force both the college and the professor to confront the facts of their performance, argues Michael Nelson. More...

In previous essays, we’ve talked about how to network effectively as well as use your Ph.D. in jobs outside academe. Since then, we’ve received a number of queries about careers from Inside Higher Ed reader. More...

uConnect announced the launch of Career-aligned Program Pages at the 2018 UPCEA National Conference (#UPCEA103). The new program pages are an extension of the uConnect enterprise software platform that enables institutions to provide advanced career services to their students. More...