Eric Farwell provides four ideas to help interest today’s students, who seem to want to read only increasingly shorter pieces, in English and literature courses. Read more...

David A. McDonald gives advice for talking to your adviser about nonacademic career plans. Read more...

By Katriel Paige. A major concern for trans people today is the process of legally changing one’s name, as well as one’s gender marker, on official college records, writes Katriel Paige. Read more...

By Jason D. Seacat. Many of us in academe might find that we have important expertise to share in surprising ways, writes Jason D. Seacat. Read more...

By Marcus Cederström. Humanities departments need to recognize today’s job market and change the tenure-or-bust attitude that’s still too prevalent on many campuses, writes Marcus Cederström. Read more...

By Sue Levine. When graduate students are searching for jobs, should they disclose any disabilities they may have? Sue Levine explores the question. Read more...

Megan Condis explores why so few students take advantage of office hours and gives some tips on how to get more of them to do so. Read more...

By Jay Dolmage and Stephanie Kerschbaum. For many disabled scholars, the choices they face when negotiating job market accommodations are deeply complex, fraught and risky, argue Jay Dolmage and Stephanie Kerschbaum. Read more...

By Shannon Craigo-Snell. Without that extra push of likability, and often without senior scholars like us who can mentor us along the way, we have to work harder and smarter to succeed in academe, writes Shannon Craigo-Snell. Read more...

Laura Beard offers nine lessons those who work in higher education can learn from baseball. Read more...