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Prepping a Course I’ve Never Taught Before
How do you prepare to teach such a class, a junior professor asks -- especially if you'd never have suggested offering it in the first place?
Staying Organized During a Job Search
Derek Attig provides tips for keeping track of both important information and your time.
When Their Kids Don’t Make the Cut
The rich cheat to get ahead in college admissions, but celebrities and CEOs aren’t the only ones playing the game, writes Jessica Calarco.
How to Write a CV for the Academic Job Market
Victoria Reyes suggests some dos and don'ts for making yours as strong and effective as possible.
Organizing a Recruitment Experience With Impact
Hannah Foltz offers five tips for the faculty members or grad students tasked with planning a weekend for prospective Ph.D. students to remember.
10 Tips for New Doctoral Students
Jamie Hipp shares advice she wishes she'd received when embarking on her Ph.D. adventure.
Leveraging Luck in the Job Search
Luck may play a part in various aspects of a job search, writes David A. McDonald, but you can have much more influence over the process than you may realize.
A Chicano Mathematics Contender?
Much more needs to be done to increase the number of minority faculty members and to promote mathematics as a field of study for students of color, writes Alvaro Huerta.