We Ph.D.s have more in common with industrial workers in the Rust Belt than we often realize, writes Michael Zimm. More...
Mapping Your Posttenure Possibilities
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...
Truths to be Told: The First Job
Bringing in the Political Self
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...
5 Tips for Flat Abs and an Industry Job
Thomas Magaldi provides strategies that can help you not only get in shape but also find your first nonacademic job. More...
Class Size Matters
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...
How Do You Feel?
It’s a simple question, but it provides powerful feedback about how you experience various aspects of your work, writes Kerry Ann Rockquemore. More...
Latinxs in Academe
Latinx students’ higher enrollment in colleges and universities in the United States should produce hope. But the attrition rate is higher for Latinx students than for their peers from other racial and ethnic groups. That lower rate of undergraduate completion is reflected at the graduate level as well: a recent report shows that less than 1 percent of Latinxs hold Ph.D.s -- far fewer than Asians, whites and African-Americans. More...
You're Not Alone
Derek Attig provides resources to show how others have handled the exciting yet challenging process of figuring out what comes next. More...
Doctoral Students as Academic Leaders
Doctoral programs should learn the skills to best respond to the growing demands on higher education institutions, write Ralph A. Gigliotti and Maria J. Qadri. More...