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When Life Unbalances Your Work
Leah Colvin provides advice for the times when upheavals in life change everything you thought you knew about your work self.
Is Gender Bias an Intended Feature of Teaching Evaluations?
Such evaluations pretend to be the result of a neutral process but are better measures of student stereotypes than teaching effectiveness, argues Victor Ray.
Trading the Tenure Track for Tech
Chandra Y. Osborn explains why she walked away from a position at a prestigious university to join a tech start-up -- and what she learned about academic research along the way.
Family-Friendly Conferences
Few institutions and associations have considered the particular hurdles conference participation presents for women scholars with children, argue Angela L. Bos, Jennie Sweet-Cushman and Monica Schneider.
Let’s Stop Normalizing Student Debt
Why do academics accept and perpetuate the idea, asks Jessica Estep, that financial ruin should be the norm for humanities Ph.D.s?
Best Practices for Professional Email
Natalie Lundsteen offers some basic tips to help you have clear and confident electronic communication.
My Journey With Department Service
A Ph.D. candidate describes the costs of doing service as a graduate student of color.
Midlife Ph.D. Programs and Minority Students
How do students evaluate the return on investment of pursuing a doctoral degree later in life? Gary A. Berg provides some answers.