Career Advice

Many people deny that pervasive racism shapes colleges and how it's reproduced through routine, less overt acts of harm, argue Thurka Sangaramoorthy and Joseph B. Richardson Jr.

My side hustle has generated experiences I can bring to my classes, connected me to the entrepreneurial community and created a point of mutual interest with my students, writes Bill Zimmerman.

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.