Career Advice

Although executive coaching is common in the corporate sector, higher ed has been slow to understand why an experienced, outside perspective is so valuable, write Mary Sue Coleman and Lisa M. Rudgers.

Dan Moseson shares stories and strategies from across higher ed that include pragmatic advice along with ways to tackle some systemic problems.

Any institutional efforts to retain BIPOC women faculty members can be nullified when teaching obstacles are allowed to run rampant, argues Chavella T. Pittman.

They can mitigate the impacts of the pandemic, which has complicated mentoring relationships and amplified barriers for students from underrepresented groups, writes Edgar F. Lopez.

When carefully planned, it creates learning partnerships, promotes collegiality and develops a sense of mutual accountability among the students, Leslie Barnes and Gemma King write.

Misconceptions and oversimplifications still abound among Ph.D. students, and Victoria Bolf writes to set the record straight about three of them.

Like any other research project, career exploration requires information gathering and assessment, can have unexpected discoveries, and is a long-term process, writes Tina Solvik.

Reflecting on her experiences with structural racism, Terri E. Givens highlights for college leaders, trustees and others the importance of practicing radical empathy.