Career Advice

The trend toward assigning teaching to junior scholars without job security is killing universities, writes Annie Julia Wyman, but we now have a chance to start to reverse its effects.

Shoba Subramanian, Maggie Gardner and Beth Bodiya share advice for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and educators on how to develop trainee networks for enhancing professional growth during training and beyond.

Tasha Coppett, Liz Green and Suzy Nelson describe programs and critical success factors for empowering staff members to create an environment of continual learning and improvement.

Deans are struggling with similar issues across disciplines and have ideas for grappling successfully with them, but we’re often an underutilized campus resource, writes Marie Chisholm-Burns.

Offering exams in that format can be beneficial to both the instructor and the students in multiple ways, writes Kevin Sun, who provides recommendations for faculty who are considering it.

The ups and downs of building a dissertation -- the process itself -- are components of academic work that we should reflect on, learn from and share with each other, argues Lucy H. Partman.

People can progress and grow in different ways, writes Lauren Easterling, who raises questions to help you think through what that might specifically look like for you.

Going online during the pandemic has revealed how struggles for justice, inclusion and equity necessitate that faculty women of color reimagine the spatial organization of institutional power, write Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt, Patti Duncan and Marie Lo.