Career Advice

Speaking publicly about issues central to free speech and higher ed autonomy is every college president’s responsibility, writes R. Barbara Gitenstein. The future of higher ed, and thus democracy, is at stake.

The standard one for graduate students is the ladder, which by its very nature compels us to climb, writes Vanessa Doriott Anderson. But careers can take unexpected turns.

Beth Godbee presents a number of tangible ways that academics can build a sense of what’s possible, structurally as well as individually.

If you want to be published, Rachel Toor advises, you should first imagine the life of an editor.

Jaime Warburton details six key tenets that can provide many educational benefits.

Araya Baker outlines five unconscious biases other people in academe need to acknowledge and grapple with intentionally.

You need to know that it will never go quite as planned and learn to lean into pleasure, advises Mary Anne Lewis Cusato.

Matt Brim and Jessica Murray describe how having students write educational narratives can promote slow active learning.