Career Advice

David F. Labaree offers recommendations based on years of experience as a doctoral adviser, associate dean of students and teacher of courses aimed at first-year doctoral students.

By David F. Labaree

Given today’s demands, most colleges would benefit from higher-performing boards, writes Peter D. Eckel. But what is effective governance? And how do we know it when we see it?

By Peter D. Eckel

Along with other aspects of the hiring process, they can be biased, taxing, expensive and time-consuming, writes Mireille Rebeiz.

By Mireille Rebeiz

Faculty members today too rarely recognize a significant impediment to student success: students’ own refusal—not inability—to simply do the work, writes Louis Haas.

By Louis Haas

Wayne Journell explains why, despite the opportunity costs, there are some real rewards for taking on this type of work and describes some of the qualities of successful editors.

By Wayne Journell

We carry such beliefs into each search and how we present ourselves as candidates, so it’s vital that grad students and postdocs hold the right ones, writes Vanessa Doriott Anderson.

By Vanessa Doriott Anderson

The movement must not be written off as just politics or culture wars when in fact it’s a direct threat to everything higher education stands for, writes Michael Gavin.

By Michael H. Gavin

How can college leaders in 2023 begin to re-engage their employees in the midst of increasing disengagement and departures? Brandon L. Wolfe offers some suggestions.

By Brandon L. Wolfe