Career Advice

If a tenure-track faculty position is not in your future, you should consider many different types of jobs, David McDonald advises.

Entire systems must be fixed, but for now, we can all take some small, immediate steps to improve the work environment for our female colleagues, writes Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt.

When you want to make a difference in higher education, pivotal opportunities for leadership can occur all around you, writes Judith S. White, who provides advice for helping prepare for them.

A lot is riding on them, but they can be difficult to compose. James Phelan and Faye Halpern offer some helpful strategies for getting them right.

Mariam B. Lam and Anna Finn provide guidance for the committee members tasked with reading and interpreting such statements.

At its core, it's actually saying yes to something else that can be powerful in moving you ahead, writes Beth Godbee.

Public displays of emotion from people of color are unwanted in the national discourse because they cause white discomfort, argues Jasmine Harris, which results in stagnant class discussions that are detrimental to student learning goals.

It tells us a lot about how we -- often unfairly -- assign responsibility for service work, argues KerryAnn O'Meara.