Career Advice

To offer extra credit or not to offer extra credit? Deborah J. Cohan explains why, after years of not offering it, she's changed her mind.

Gaia Vasiliver-Shamis shares lessons she learned from figure skating that can also help you in your career.

Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt provides a checklist.

Spending a very long time in graduate school is expensive and impractical, writes Keisha N. Blain, who describes how to increase the likelihood of finishing faster.

Stephen J. Aguilar outlines some suggestions to help you avoid common pitfalls.

Ruth Gotian describes what she sees in job candidates from the other side of the recruitment conference booth.

Graduate students should view it as another piece of research-based writing -- with themselves as the subject, writes Melissa Dalgleish.

As they step down as editor, Eric Anthony Grollman, the founder of “Conditionally Accepted,” writes about creating a platform for marginalized scholars and thanks its many contributors.