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Crafting a Research Practice After the Ph.D.
If you’re contemplating a nonfaculty career, the idea of giving up your research might be keeping you from going forward, writes Melissa Dalgleish. But such a move doesn't mean you have to relinquish your passion.
Why We Need Greater Linguistic Diversity
As academics, in privileging certain forms of speech over others, we denigrate the possibility of thinking outside our own norms, argues A. W. Strouse.
3 Teaching Tips for Marginalized Faculty Members
Chavella T. Pittman gives advice to help make teaching less stressful and more successful in the upcoming academic year.
Blue-Collar Ph.D.
James M. Van Wyck engages with Lynn Arner in a conversation about class and the creation of the professoriate.
Making the Most of Collaborative Projects
Keisha N. Blain, who has experienced both rewarding and frustrating aspects of scholarly collaboration, offers advice.
Calling Attention to a Postdoc's Struggles and Suicide
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.
Why Faculty Members Should Not Help With Move-In Day
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?
Writing Successful Grant Proposals
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.