Career Advice

Western academics can find good positions and plenty of the comforts they crave (with a better standard of living) far from home, writes William Roden.

The way to keep electronic communication under control is to set expectations for professors and for students, writes Nate Kreuter.

In the first of a two-part series on yearly reviews, Elizabeth Simmons suggests how faculty members can frame their self-evaluative essays in ways that help them and their institutions.

Efforts to diversify faculties will work only if diverse candidates are under consideration, write Armando Bengochea and Roger Brooks. They offer ideas on how to make that likely.

To get hired, you need to master the six elements of a professional persona, writes Karen Kelsky.

Stock up on kindness to confront perils of winter, Maria Shine Stewart suggests.

Nate Kreuter reflects on what he learned playing an all-campus game in which he was the only faculty member.

Graduate programs in foreign languages need to stop letting their grad students go on the job market without sufficient fluency, writes Stephen Brockmann.