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Meeting the Instructional Challenge of Distance Education

Alexander Astin outlines some specific pedagogical practices that might enhance student involvement online and warns against a course content approach.

How to Practice Safe Failure

Julia Nolte offers five strategies for how you can minimize -- or ultimately benefit from -- experiences of failure in graduate school and beyond.

Infusing Positivity Into Your Job Search

While you can't ignore the exceptional challenges inherent in a job search these days, a positive mind-set can help you get through the tough spots and succeed, writes Daniel J. Moglen.

Who Serves Your Cake?

Even in a progressive field in higher education, many people who believe they're operating from a place of equality have not recognized their unconscious expectations, argues Adriana Domínguez.

What Can You Do With a Ph.D.?

Many graduate students haven’t given enough thought to how to leverage their knowledge, skills and abilities to get well-paying jobs outside the academy, writes Joseph R. Fitzgerald.

Reimagining Service Learning in the Digital Age

An ideal education in 2020 will give students the tools -- both physical and digital -- to work with their neighbors to improve the lived circumstances in their communities, writes Laken Brooks.

Starting a Tenure-Track Career

This transition, while enormously exciting, can present some challenges and concerns, writes Melissa Dennihy, who offers tips on how to settle in your first year and keep thriving.

The World Changes, and We Grow

This year has seen our working selves and home selves blended to a degree that no one could have anticipated, writes Victoria McGovern, and there will be lasting consequences.