Career Advice

Concerned about the quality of graduate student advising, Stanford professors approve changes to advising requirements and guidelines.

Kristy J. Sherrer discusses some industry strategies for effective professional communication and productivity.

Salvador Vidal-Ortiz explores how to begin to dismantle the workings of whiteness and redistribute power dynamics in academe.

Christine Tulley gives advice on developing a cohesive narrative in your tenure and promotion dossier.

What is most valuable about them to professors, as well as to the institution, is that the process includes three accountability moments that force both the college and the professor to confront the facts of their performance, argues Michael Nelson.

Cassandra O'Sullivan Sachar has found that the time she's spent in class going over Turnitin has paid off in terms of the quality of papers she's received from students.

Is a bad handshake such a bad thing? Yes, and especially when the person whose hand you are shaking has a professionally firm one, writes Joseph Barber.

Aptly titled courses and robust descriptions teach students a valuable lesson in speaking uncomfortable racial truths to white power, argues Ted Thornhill.