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Opinion
Birthing Both a Baby and Ph.D. as a Woman of Color
Dealing with both pregnancy and a Ph.D. were challenge enough, writes Whitney N. Laster Pirtle, without the unexpected additional burdens that she faced.
Opinion
Writing an Effective Abstract: An Audience-Based Approach
A bad abstract won’t by itself cause journal editors to reject a scholarly article, but it does incline them toward an initial negative answer, write Faye Halpern and James Phelan.
Opinion
Why We Must Support Sabbaticals
A sabbatical is a privilege that everyone should defend and seek out, not something to be eliminated where it still exists, argues Christopher Schaberg.
Opinion
Talking Trump in the Classroom
In today's political environment, how can professors challenge students to make sense of a changing world without imposing their own value-based judgments on classroom discussions? Jo-Ellen Pozner suggests some approaches.
Opinion
Your Ph.D. Experience Is Great Work Experience -- Part I
Contrary to popular and judgmental opinion, your doctoral experience is some of the best real-world working experience you can get, writes Briana Mohan.
Opinion
Securing Funding During Graduate School
The freedom that research support brings is particularly important for radical scholars of color, writes Victor Ray, who gives advice on how to obtain it.
Opinion
The Confessions -- and Confusions -- of a First-Generation Scholar
While a huge literature exists on first-generation undergraduates, there is only silence about what happens to those students when they go on to doctoral or faculty life. Herb Childress provides an insider’s description.
Opinion
The Continuing Conflict Between Mathematics and Femininity
One need only consider the cultural impact of the recent film Hidden Figures to see the need to expand our cultural understanding of who can engage in mathematics, writes Sara N. Hottinger.