While a sabbatical is a venerated academic milestone, we should do more to raise the profile of the year after it, argues Heather Camp. Read more...
Getting to No
In academe, many women of color are constantly pressured to overcompensate in ways that are unhealthy for themselves, their careers and their institutions, writes Yvette Alex-Assensoh. Read more...
Sometimes You Soar
And sometimes you fumble, writes Jeffrey Nesteruk, when it comes to the self you bring to your teaching. Read more...
Seeking Grants: More Than Money
Pursuing funding support as a graduate student or postdoc can help your career -- and in more ways than one, writes Victoria McGovern. Read more...
The Silencing of Sexual Violence Survivors
Nondisclosure agreements in sexual assault cases are pervasive and pernicious, especially where student complaints against faculty or staff members are concerned, writes Sheila Liming. Read more...
Your Kids Can Help You Be a Better Professor
I may not get tenure, writes Erin L. Thompson, but becoming a mother has been the best thing that has ever happened in my life as an academic. Read more...
Dealing With Dysfunctional Academic Departments
The faculty in the math department of a major university has a history of expertise in theory, but the faculty of its much smaller empirical group has become completely estranged from it. Read more...
Developing Media-Savvy Students
As our national political dialogue veers toward personal attack and speculation and away from meaningful and civil exchange, we should require our students to read a national newspaper and discuss its content, and then test them on it, writes Susan Siena. Read more...
The Menagerie of Potential Employers
It's important to realize that employers see the world differently than you do and to understand their specific emotional states, advises Joseph Barber. Read more...
Teaching About Sexuality, Violence and Power
When the alleged perpetrator is a person with whom we feel some sort of affiliation or reverence, we start to make excuses and bend over backward to deny the plausibility of the victim’s experience, writes Jamie L. Small. Read more...