Career Advice

Natalie Lundsteen and Diane A. Safer outline the essentials for getting the most out of one-on-one career advising.

People have been discussing the potential benefits in academic settings for more than two decades, but COVID-19 has brought the issue into sharp relief, write Karen Spierling and Jane Palmer.

​As the mentor, guide and role model, you have the responsibility to maintain inclusive environments and steer the debate in a productive direction, advise Ronald J. Threadgill, Nicholas C. Burbules and C. K. Gunsalus.

This semester, make your online quizzes carry more of the weight of instruction, Zachary Nowak advises.

Laurence Musgrove explains his rationale in poetry.

In those final moments, you can make or break your chances of moving forward, advises Ann Amicucci.

We need to exchange our binary thinking for new, more capacious metaphors -- those that will free us to think about new practices, argues James M. Van Wyck.

In academe, the tenure clock is ticking at an even faster rate than your biological one, so which are you going to heed? Emily Van Duyne asks.