Career Advice

Jude Mikal shares advice, including the elements you should incorporate into your proposals that aren’t taught in classes or books but rather passed down through informal networks.

Lauren Easterling offers advice for successful job searches after obtaining your doctorate or completing a postdoc in midlife.

The academy continues to be ableist and disadvantage people with various learning abilities and those in neurodiverse learning communities, argues Karly Ball.

Follow your dream, but don’t hold your breath, advises Eric Jager, author of The Last Duel, who highlights the importance of luck, timing and the help of key people.

Nicole C. Livengood discusses her banned books class and offers suggestions for small tasks to help students in a range of courses develop the skills for engaging in civil discourse.

Bruce Taylor offers lessons from an almost 40-year career as a university expat.

It defines who you are as a job seeker, what you are looking for, what you would like to achieve and, most important, what people associate with your name, writes Ketan Marballi.

The practice of co-authored chapters in a dissertation is deeply troubling and seems to defeat the purpose of demonstrating the ability to do original research, argues James Finkelstein.