Courtney C. W. Guerra provides advice on how to successfully compile a compelling renewal or tenure dossier. More...
Retaining Faculty of Color: Costs and Consequences
Michael Johnson Jr. provides some concrete suggestions for how institutions can improve their campus climate and quality of life for such faculty. More...
Teaching in the Age of Me Too
Eric S. Yellin was nervous about teaching a course based on a false rape accusation but found he was wrong to be so anxious -- and that the experience offered four lessons for instructors. More...
Collaboration as Career Value
Knowing and articulating your approach to working with others can be an asset on the job market, writes Joseph Stanhope Cialdella. More...
5 Tips for Creating a Productive Writing Group
Thomas Seweid-DeAngelis describes how to go about building and maintaining a successful one for graduate students.
Academic work can feel very isolating. Research, reading and writing in graduate school are often solitary acts. We labor alone with only our doubts and anxieties to accompany us. More...
What We Measure Is What We Value
The tenure and promotion documents currently floating around our colleges and universities do not necessarily reflect what should be rewarded, argues Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt. More...
Students who plan to seek more education than needed for their career earn more money
When it comes to career success, it pays to aim for more education than what you need for the job you want. More...
The Prepper Career Trap
Collaborative Work, Academic Training, and Alt-Ac Careers
Alternative academic work is mostly a team sport. More...
'Late Bloomers' and Non-Traditional Academic Careers
By Joshua Kim. A book to help us make sense of our non-linear professional lives. More...