Career Advice

These days, an interim or new president must be ready to immediately manage myriad campus challenges, and that requires identifying and calling upon trusted sages, advises Patrick Sanaghan.

This is an opportune time to emphasize systemic changes that need to occur to nurture the next generation of scientists, Adriana Bankston writes.

Such comments reveal an alarming level of misunderstanding, if not ignorance, of the Arab American community, reducing us to stereotypes and implying that we don’t belong, writes Mireille Rebeiz.

When thinking about what jobs in academe to pursue, we rarely seem to consider the startling differences between various sorts of colleges and universities, writes Claire Potter.

A student who follows that advice will most likely end up as lost as they were before—just inside a slightly narrower wilderness, argue Christopher Rea and Thomas S. Mullaney.

Many aspects of our lives have been upended these past several years, and we face uncertain futures, writes Shareen Joshi.

You will miss out on a great opportunity if you pass up the chance to be involved with such a group, writes Tithi Basu Mallik.

Too many people confess they can’t wait to retire so they can finally write what they really want. They spend years living and working in ways that are conditional and constraining, writes Deborah J. Cohan.