While sitting in a lecture, a student’s attention may shift in many ways -- daydreaming, looking out a window at a beautiful day, or searching a website on a laptop or mobile device.
With everything that is happening in the world, it is easy for students to become distracted during class. More...

As a newly tenured professor, you should talk with people who are doing the work you dream about to discover what it’s really like on a daily basis -- and how they got where they are today, advises Kerry Ann Rockquemore. More...

If no one ever teaches women of color how to talk about sexual violence, how will we ever cultivate our voices, Manya Whitaker asks -- whether as survivors, bystanders, friends or advocates. More...

We must stop holding unrealistic standards of beauty, writes Jeannine A. Gailey, and work to reduce the harm and discrimination experienced by women of size. More...

We Ph.D.s have more in common with industrial workers in the Rust Belt than we often realize, writes Michael Zimm. More...

You will have the greatest impact, influence and joy if your path emerges from deep self-understanding, writes Kerry Ann Rockquemore, who describes how to make such possibility mapping concrete. More...

In my last post I focused on my time in graduate school at the University of California at Los Angeles and the transition to my first job. Some people might say I was lucky to get a tenure-track job straight out of grad school at a top-notch program, but luck had little to do with it. More...

I want to encourage my students to engage in respectful dialogue with me and one another on the issues we face -- not with a forced or feigned sense of neutrality, writes Katie L. Acosta. More...

Thomas Magaldi provides strategies that can help you not only get in shape but also find your first nonacademic job. More...

Ideas vary as to what constitutes large classes. Some people say it’s the 200-person chemistry class or the 400-person nutrition class at a major research university. More...