Career Advice

Few people in higher education use coaches, but such professionals offer neutrality, perspective, discretion and feedback that colleagues, friends and family often can’t provide.

By Stefan Kalt

Michael A. Helfand, an Orthodox Jew, describes how his experience at a Christian university has given him a window into how faith-based institutions successfully promote religious diversity.

By Michael A. Helfand

How can you get students to put down their cellphones and engage in class? Dwight DeWerth-Pallmeyer offers some suggestions for helping them give up their addiction.

By Dwight DeWerth-Pallmeyer

Reviewing advertisements of all sorts can help you identify appealing job types and sectors that you may never even have heard of, advises Derek Attig.

By Derek Attig

Navigating an unfamiliar environment can amplify the challenges of developing strategies to avoid harassment, writes Kathrin Zippel, who offers some guidance.

By Kathrin Zippel

While a sabbatical is a venerated academic milestone, we should do more to raise the profile of the year after it, argues Heather Camp.

By Heather Camp

In academe, many women of color are constantly pressured to overcompensate in ways that are unhealthy for themselves, their careers and their institutions, writes Yvette Alex-Assensoh.

By Yvette Alex-Assensoh

And sometimes you fumble, writes Jeffrey Nesteruk, when it comes to the self you bring to your teaching.

By Jeffrey Nesteruk