Career Advice

Cultivate readers for your work and build a network of them to draw upon throughout your writing process, advises Jennifer Ahern-Dodson.

If we stand a chance of catching up to the rapid advancement of technology, it’s time to speed up the skills development of today’s students, write Justin Shaffer, John Spear, Kalen L. Rasmussen and Patrick H. Thieringer.

Even though we’re on the front lines, faculty members often don’t know how to respond, writes Betty S. Lai.

Sasha Bianca Goldman explores five reasons why they could be a solution for delivering professional development and skill-building content.

We get lots of advice when we retire, writes Robert Franciosi, but no one ever addresses the elephant in the room for some aging professors: What to do with all the books?

They’ve become increasingly important to science, but we don’t discuss our challenges with data, and academic culture can push us to work out problems alone, says Julia Stewart Lowndes.

As we experience disengagement, anxiety and disconnectedness, routine practices can be a powerful antidote, writes Constanza Bartholomae.

Public-facing work shouldn't just be an add-on to scholarly work but also an integral aspect of our jobs as researchers, writers and teachers, writes Christopher Schaberg.