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Career Advice Carpe Careers

Choose Your Adventure

Victoria McGovern offers advice to help graduate students cultivate an interdisciplinary mindset.

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Career Advice Teaching

A Modest (Style) Proposal

AI should free us to teach students differently about citation styles, Brandy Bagar-Fraley writes.

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Opinion
Career Advice Diversity

No Research About Us Without Us

Research labs benefit if faculty are inclusive of students with disabilities, a group of scholars and students committed to inclusive lab practices write.

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Career Advice

Advice to a Friend on Becoming an Adjunct

Melissa Olson-Petrie pens an epistle for all those now or henceforth laboring in steerage.

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Career Advice Teaching

‘D’s Get the Degrees’: Shifting the Mindset of Underachiever Students

Having underachievers in class can be frustrating, but these students can be guided into becoming high achievers, writes Yalinu Poya, an assistant professor.

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Career Advice Carpe Careers

Behold: The Administrative Postdoc

Administrative postdoc positions offer advantages for Ph.D.s looking to transition into a range of career paths, Alex Yen and Anne-Charlotte Mecklenburg write.

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Career Advice Seeking a Faculty Job

The Ivy Advantage

Adam Szetela asks why Ivy League Ph.D. students like him should have an advantage on the academic job market.

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Career Advice Advancing as an Administrator

Chairs Can Be the Changemakers Colleges Need

Don Chu argues that department chairs should take a much more proactive role in confronting institutional budget challenges.