Career Advice

Ensuring that individuals in a unit are successful while also maintaining its stature can impact chairs’ decisions in ways that contribute to bias, write Kim Avrama Blackwell, Marjolein van der Meulen and Lori Setton.

Jobs in career advising for grad students call on the natural skills of such Ph.D.s and are both fulfilling and in demand, writes Yoonha Shin.

Regardless of our fears and challenges, Heather Braun writes, we all can take actions, however small, that will over time lead to bigger and more lasting changes.

The pandemic may be over, Patrick Sanaghan and Erica Barreiro write, but top administrators should still use its lessons to navigate today’s challenges.

Victoria Hallinan and Karena Nguyen share their advice, as well as that of a postdoc and several other administrators, about pursuing this career path.

Patricia Taylor has found using AI takes more time and creates more problems than not if instructors want students to get meaningful feedback on their work.

If you’re a president or aspire to such a role, you’ll do a better job if you gain your social media footing, write Rachael Hagerstrom and Laurie Fenlason.

Many academics criticize traditional lectures as being too passive and old-fashioned, but they actually help enhance pedagogical diversity, writes Xinqiang Li.