Career Advice

Owen Sutkowski explains why he thinks all higher ed professionals -- including faculty members -- should have this experience.

William and Matt Eventoff offer tips on how to prepare (and not to prepare) to defend your thesis or dissertation.

One key to helping minority faculty members is to recognize that some of their experiences are different from those faced by others, and to remember that some are not, writes Kerry Ann Rockquemore.

Rob Weir discusses how to deal with student complaints about grades on papers.

Graduate students and junior professors need to navigate relationships in departments where people may not like to admit that hierarchies exist, writes Nate Kreuter.

Search committees need to stop being rude to job candidates, writes Afshan Jafar.

As in Dickinson’s famous poem, we don’t generally stop for death. Maria Shine Stewart considers how empathy might ease the pain of loss on kinder campuses.

Stories from a senior faculty member's past may be more fun to tell than they are helpful to those trying to navigate academic careers, writes Kerry Ann Rockquemore.