The evolution of social media has provided multiple routes for making new professional acquaintances and friends, writes Victoria McGovern. More...

If you are in the humanities or social sciences, you may regard a monograph or book, especially your first one, as a milestone in your career. More...

William Casement found his Ph.D. and intellectual bent were assets to be parlayed in the outside world rather than a cross to bear. More...

S. Georgia Nugent describes how to get the opportunity, the break, to move farther along your leadership path. More...

A controversy over a social media post at the University of Missouri should encourage other institutions to reconsider how they and their own departments are operating, writes Courtney N. Wright. More...

What does being healthy and well look like during a job search, and why does that matter? Based on my work with graduate students and postdocs, along with my own experiences, preparing for and conducting a job search can feel exhausting. More...

“Authority is contextual and constructed,” I tell my first-year writing students, all 96 of them, when introducing them to academic research. And what do I mean by that? I’m a composition teacher, I say, so I have some authority on composition. More...

Junior Prof shares a few strategies for making an academic job search or the process of submitting a grant proposal a bit more bearable. More...

Rebbecca Kaplan advises other Ph.D.s considering higher ed administration, describing how -- despite leaving the scholarly track -- she lives a modified version of the career path she originally prepared for. More...

Michael Johnson Jr. calls on tenured and tenure-track faculty to combat an incremental erosion of faculty governance. More...