Career Advice

As academics, in privileging certain forms of speech over others, we denigrate the possibility of thinking outside our own norms, argues A. W. Strouse.

Chavella T. Pittman gives advice to help make teaching less stressful and more successful in the upcoming academic year.

James M. Van Wyck engages with Lynn Arner in a conversation about class and the creation of the professoriate.

Keisha N. Blain, who has experienced both rewarding and frustrating aspects of scholarly collaboration, offers advice.

Author of a scientific paper fought for years to find a journal to accept his work, which has an acknowledgments section that includes a tribute to a colleague.

How did we get to the point in higher education, asks Deborah J. Cohan, where we’re being asked to participate in so many customer-oriented gimmicks?

Most sizable grants are just too large and complex to write in a single heroic burst of last-minute effort, says Victoria McGovern, who offers advice on how to craft successful proposals.

University presidents often seem to struggle to issue apologies in controversial cases, but some say they tend to have reason to be cautious.