Career Advice

How we as teachers look and comport ourselves can impact the learning experience, and as an adjunct, I do not feel safe bringing my sexuality into the classroom, writes Jeana Jorgensen.

Brady Smith and Chandani Patel, both Ph.D.s, were in the same field, shared the same dissertation committee and wound up applying to most of the same jobs. They share their advice for how they have made their dual careers work.

By getting involved, faculty members directly work toward institutional goals like creating a positive learning environment and improving retention rates, argues Kirstin Kelley.

Emily Allen Williams offers advice that she wishes people had given her to avoid self-sabotage in her early years on the tenure track.

If you’re contemplating a nonfaculty career, the idea of giving up your research might be keeping you from going forward, writes Melissa Dalgleish. But such a move doesn't mean you have to relinquish your passion.

As academics, in privileging certain forms of speech over others, we denigrate the possibility of thinking outside our own norms, argues A. W. Strouse.

Chavella T. Pittman gives advice to help make teaching less stressful and more successful in the upcoming academic year.

James M. Van Wyck engages with Lynn Arner in a conversation about class and the creation of the professoriate.