By Christine Kelly. You can love your field, your specialty area and academe, but sometimes they won't love you back, writes Christine Kelly. Read more...
Cultivating a Career Calling
By Paula Di Rita Wishart. How do you “follow your passion” when it is unclear or is seemingly unconnected with what you understand about work? Paula Di Rita Wishart provides advice. Read more...
Presidential Spouse as Utility Player
By Mort Maimon. Sometimes it's best for a presidential spouse to avoid the role of a home-run-crushing slugger and to focus instead on relatively inconspicuous but worthwhile endeavors, writes Mort Maimon. Read more...
Letters of Assessment
By Joya Misra and Jennifer Lundquist. A request to write letters evaluating other faculty for tenure and promotion means that other people think you are qualified to make this important assessment. It can also be terrifying, write Joya Misra and Jennifer Lundquist. Read more...
Professor loses chairmanship over recorded comments at free enterprise convention
By Colleen Flaherty. Economics professor loses department chairmanship after his comments at a free enterprise conference are leaked. Read more...
Many College Business Officers Poised to Retire
By Rick Seltzer. Almost 44 percent of chief business officers expect their next career move to be retirement, according to the NACUBO National Profile of Higher Education Chief Business Officers, a report issued every three years that was released Thursday. Read more...
Career Counselors or Headhunters?
By Jake New. Career centers are providing more access to some companies than others (for a fee), a move that has career counselors concerned institutions are selling students to the highest bidder. Read more...
The Skills You Need To Launch A Data Science Career
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. People love to make pronouncements about a year. 2016 is the Year of … what? Data? That certainly doesn’t seem possible, given that we’ve been talking about data—both big and otherwise—for some time now. More...
UK: Study Group to embed career skills in pathways
By Beckie Smith. Global education provider Study Group is launching a new employability scheme for the international students who enrol on its pathway programmes in the UK. More...
Is it time to eliminate tenure for professors?
By Samantha Bernstein and Adrianna Kezar. The State College of Florida recently scrapped tenure for incoming faculty. New professors at this public university will be hired on the basis of annual contracts that the college can decline to renew at any time. Read more...