Career Development

Full-time jobs in English and languages continue to decline, reaching a new low, says preliminary annual jobs report from the Modern Language Association.

Fordham’s English department is giving those finishing doctorates $4,500 each to help with the many costs associated with finding a position.

As protests unfolded at universities across the Northeast, graduate students seeking union recognition face an NLRB that might no longer be sympathetic to their cause.

Could postdoc unions be the next big thing in collective bargaining among academics? Recent filing at University of Washington could be beginning of a new round of organizing.

New study pushes back on decades of studies suggesting that scientific productivity peaks early and declines thereafter.

PETA goes after a Yale postdoc for her research on birds, and some academics cry foul.

New analysis finds the number of doctorates awarded keeps rising, even as number of job openings drops.

Study of top public universities finds limited faculty diversity, yet signs of progress -- except for African-Americans in STEM.