Career Advice

Helen Pho provides insights to help lower the anxiety such students often feel when pursuing a Ph.D.

Amelia Gibson explores the far-reaching effects of campuses' mistreatment of senior faculty of color.

The view that we adjuncts are inferior teachers or scholars who somehow deserve our lot makes less and less sense as time goes on, Angela B. Fulk argues.

Even though job ads often don't say, junior academics have a right to know with whom they'll be working, Mehdy Shaddel writes.

Cathy Davidson describes how to transform your “revise and resubmit” comments from one to the other.

Faculty members can't know the ins and outs of every job that might interest their grad students and postdocs, but they do have some significant career-related responsibilities, writes Melissa Dalgleish.

Seanna Leath describes the challenges of mothering at the intersection of poverty and privilege.

Those of us who work in academe can better prioritize our time if we make explicit the trade-offs that exist in faculty work, writes Michael S. Harris.