Faculty members should come together and organize on behalf of the future of higher education, argues Melanie Barron. More...

Four departmental colleagues of mine have died over the past two years. All four were long retired, advanced in age and in waning health. I knew all of them, was close with most of them and was able to attend the memorial services for two of them. The funeral services were, as was appropriate, described as celebrations -- there was, after all, much to celebrate about their lives. More...

The field of career services is changing, and one of the most significant changes is a move from a counseling model to a coaching model. For professionals on either side, the subject is wrought with complex implications and opinions. For trainees looking for the right place to find support for their next career transition, which model works best. More...

In 1952, a graduate student in sociology from the University of Chicago named Erving Goffman published a paper in the journal Psychiatry that I reread every few years with deepening respect. It analyzes one seemingly marginal and highly specific kind of person-to-person interaction, then pulls back, like a movie camera, to take in more and more of the terrain of everyday life. More...