Career Advice

Alicia Garcia and Magdalena L. Barrera explore the benefits of a relationship between a graduate student and professor that is professional yet deeply collegial.

Jennifer Moon shares her reflections on quit lit and the academic draft -- and how she has no regrets about leaving higher ed after gaining her Ph.D.

Beth L. Hewett gives advice for making the most of summer to write those scholarly articles, book chapters and books that you promised yourself you'd write.

James M. Van Wyck offers some specific advice on how they can help their Ph.D. mentees.

Victor Ray explores three faulty premises about it.

Terri E. Givens describes her decision to leave academe and how she plans to share lessons she's learned and use them in her new work with ed-tech companies.

If rejection is something that we all face in academe -- some of which can make us better scholars, some of which just makes us needlessly hurt -- we should become more proactive than reactive, Max Perry Mueller urges.

For a graduate student, the thought of mentoring undergraduates in research projects can evoke panic, but Phillipe Wernette found many advantages in a team-based approach.