Career Advice

Candy Lee shares some of the lessons she's learned teaching a college course on tackling tough subjects using picture books.

The chair’s letter is the principal information conduit to the dean and central administration and, thus, a decisive element in the tenure and promotion process, writes Richard Utz.

Irina Filonova and Paola Barriga share four key things they wish they'd known about graduate training in the United States when they came from abroad.

An academic spouse ponders how the more things have changed over the past 100 years, the more they have remained the same.

In class, I cannot get close enough to read people's lips behind the face shields because of social distancing rules, Kevin Garrison writes, so my students are increasingly silent.

Alexis R. Abramson, an engineering dean, provides advice on how to replicate the experiential learning of labs, group projects and field research in virtual and hybrid classes.

Online teaching has often forced faculty to retrofit living spaces into professional offices, and meanwhile the expenses quietly yet steadily increase, writes Regina A. Bernard.

​Joseph Aldinger and Chris Smith describe a variety of digital resources for online career and professional development and how to leverage them during the pandemic.