Career Advice

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.

Chris Blattman offers ideas on how to approach a professor to help you on part of the process for getting into a grad program or landing an academic job.

In the second essay in a two-part series, Elizabeth Simmons advises instructors on how they can best evaluate their faculty peers.

Western academics can find good positions and plenty of the comforts they crave (with a better standard of living) far from home, writes William Roden.