Alfreda James shares insights for any new or soon-to-be Ph.D. interested in the day-to-day life of a career education professional. More...
10 Strategies for Navigating Academic Careers
Aimee LaPointe Terosky explores some common themes among educators who have navigated and shaped their careers in meaningful ways. More...
A Kinder Goodbye
Job changes and losses can happen anytime, even when you think you are indispensable, writes Maria Shine Stewart, so it’s good to prepare. More...
How to Cope Without a Full-Time Job Offer
Raechel Tiffe gives six pointers on how to thrive without secure academic employment.
I didn’t always want to be a professor, but when I learned what a professor did (or what I thought they did), I decided it was exactly the profession from which to do the things I wanted to do. More...
Title IX And Your Legal Counsel
Many more colleges have dedicated Title IX offices, writes Sara Matthiesen, but activists should also take a hard look at an overlooked but exceedingly powerful entity. More...
Adjuncts as Allies?
Supporting and counseling students who’ve experienced sexual violence can be fraught with challenges for contingent faculty, writes Alexis Henshaw. More...
Don’t Network Like I Garden
Joseph Barber explains how, as with the plants in your garden, the people in your career network need nurturing to thrive. More...
Timekeeping as Feminist Pedagogy
Those same voices that are privileged in mainstream media, culture and politics, argues Danica Savonick, are also those that get the most speaking time in class. More...
Landing a Postdoctoral Fellowship
While securing one is becoming increasingly difficult, Keisha N. Blain offers several strategies to improve your odds of success. More...
A Year With the New MLA
We finally have a handbook that has writers thinking more critically about citation than we ever have before, writes Peter Wayne Moe.
The eighth edition of the Modern Language Association’s handbook created quite a lot of chatter upon its publication last year -- and rightfully so -- both on my campus and in the academic press. More...