Career Advice

While it has some value when it comes to developing innovative approaches, grad students and others can usually benefit from curbing or controlling it, writes Kay Kimball Gruder.

We often seek professional development to become better instructors. Among many other benefits, each course can provide firsthand lessons about different teaching techniques, writes Jean Coltharp.

In an era of downsizings and eliminations, our belief in that contract and how we view our professional identities are key to moving ahead as a cohesive, united faculty, writes Brian Peterson.

As colleges and universities return to in-classroom teaching, what practices that emerged during the pandemic will carry over? Shigeru Miyagawa and Meghan Perdue offer some answers.

Elisa Modolo offers recommendations based on what she wishes she’d known back when she was a graduate student herself.

As today’s grad students and postdocs eventually enter the workforce in research, education, business and advocacy, it will be key to career success and equity in science, writes Jessica A. Hutchins.

Laurence Musgrove shares a poem about the state of things.

Liz Wasden shares strategies that have made her own balancing act a bit steadier.