Career Advice

Afshan Jafar considers the similarities between starting a family and an academic career.

Roger McHaney offers advice for professors who want to embrace digital tools, but aren't quite sure where to start.

Trysh Travis considers when it may not be in students' interests to write them letters of recommendation.

G.B. Shaw said that "youth is wasted on the young." Be that as it may, college is not wasted on the older, at least on kinder campuses. Maria Shine Stewart reflects.

Nate Kreuter considers the role of instructors when their students come to them with decidedly nonacademic problems.

Even if you find at a campus visit that an institution isn't for you, never show a lack of interest, writes Kathryn Hume.

E-mail communication is fast and convenient -- which is exactly why it often exacerbates conflict, rather than helping avoid it, writes John Frazee.

Sybil L. Holloway considers the roles of planning, preparation and setting reasonable expectations.