Career Advice

Amanda Grieme Bradley describes how the unexpected way she chose to use her sabbatical is influencing her as she returns to campus for a fall semester full of unknowns.

When asked in job interviews why you’re leaving academe, talk less about what’s driving you away and more about what’s attracting you toward something new, advises Derek Attig.

Inadequately citing or entirely omitting the scholarship of women and people of color reflects the larger problem of entrenched marginalization in the academy, write 12 women scholars.

Universities must do a better job helping Ph.D.s find their first nonfaculty job and obtain the skills they need to transition into a variety of meaningful, well-paying careers, writes Melissa Dalgleish.

When it comes to assessing student performance, the fact is that some students may fail -- yes, even in a pandemic -- yet that doesn’t make the instructor a bad educator, writes Deborah J. Cohan.

For Ph.D. students in particular, the opportunity cost of brushing retirement planning under the rug can be colossal in the long run, Fahad Sajid warns.

Tina Solvik offers five practical steps to help you determine the best fit and derive the most benefit.

Cynthia Richards found it meant representing higher education in venues where she was as likely to be confronted with anger, despair or even an AR-15 as with a pen and a notebook.