Few institutions and associations have considered the particular hurdles conference participation presents for women scholars with children, argue Angela L. Bos, Jennie Sweet-Cushman and Monica Schneider. More...
How to Talk to Students With Ill-Considered Beliefs
Simply presenting the facts is generally not effective in changing minds on a charged issue, writes Gleb Tsipursky. More...
Best Practices for Professional Email
My institution recently ran a comprehensive career-development program for our graduate students and postdocs. One of the workshop modules that our Ph.D.s valued most provided a general overview of communicating in the workplace. It advised them on some best practices to help smooth their transition to the next career destination. More...
My Journey With Department Service
A Ph.D. candidate describes the costs of doing service as a graduate student of color. More...
Midlife Ph.D. Programs and Minority Students
How do students evaluate the return on investment of pursuing a doctoral degree later in life? Gary A. Berg provides some answers. More...
Student (In)Civility in the Age of Trump
Pam Whitfield offers suggestions for faculty members about how to manage student behavior and keep students safe at a time of growing contention. More...
Let’s Stop Normalizing Student Debt
Why do academics accept and perpetuate the idea, asks Jessica Estep, that financial ruin should be the norm for humanities Ph.D.s. More...
Designing Principles for Exploring Your Career
In June, several University of Michigan staff members who support students in their professional and career development in different schools and colleges across the university had the opportunity to learn the Designing Your Life curriculum from the Life Design Lab team at Stanford University. More...
Helping Students See the Connections
We should help students make sense of not only the subject matter of our particular class but also how all their curricular and co-curricular activities fit together, writes Laura L. Behling. More...
Halfway Home: The Black Academic and the Struggle for Belonging
Black scholars experience an ever-present tension between who we used to be and who we have become, writes Robert L. Reece. More...