Career Advice

While securing one is becoming increasingly difficult, Keisha N. Blain offers several strategies to improve your odds of success.

By Keisha N. Blain

Those same voices that are privileged in mainstream media, culture and politics, argues Danica Savonick, are also those that get the most speaking time in class.

By Danica Savonick

Joseph Barber explains how, as with the plants in your garden, the people in your career network need nurturing to thrive.

By Joseph Barber

As right-wing groups scale up their attacks on higher education, colleges and universities need to take bold steps to support scholars who are being targeted, argue Jessie Daniels and Arlene Stein.

By Jessie Daniels and Arlene Stein

Supporting and counseling students who’ve experienced sexual violence can be fraught with challenges for contingent faculty, writes Alexis Henshaw.

By Alexis Henshaw

Many more colleges have dedicated Title IX offices, writes Sara Matthiesen, but activists should also take a hard look at an overlooked but exceedingly powerful entity.

By Sara Matthiesen

First-ever national survey of postdocs who are parents reveals a lack of access to paid parental leave, pressures to return to work early and extra stressors for parents of color.

Raechel Tiffe gives six pointers on how to thrive without secure academic employment.

By Raechel Tiffe