Career Advice

Kate Perry and Tobias T. Gibson offer suggestions for successful male mentorships of women in academe.

As graduate school deans, we should do more to prepare Ph.D. students for multiple career paths -- not only for their own sakes but also to help manage crises like COVID-19, writes Ambika Mathur.

Principal investigators should not try to make postdocs simply mini versions of themselves but instead commit to advancing their chosen careers, Vipul Sharma writes.

Patrick T. Terenzini describes six characteristics that, based on decades of research, have been found to cultivate and promote student learning.

As colleges promise to diversify faculty, they must ensure that those of color have the same career opportunities that their white colleagues have always enjoyed, writes W. Carson Byrd.

Normal life obstacles and a global pandemic don't mean that progress on your career journey must stop. It may just take a different shape than you originally expected, Lauren Easterling writes.

If the pandemic has interrupted your scholarly writing, this could be the time to explore other genres or to seek coaching or other forms of support, Christina Lux and Tanya Golash-Boza advise.

Bonnie Gordon pens a poem about the pandemic in his style.