K. Anne Amienne and Daniela Blei (Inside Higher Education, June 18, 2025)|Posted on June 24, 2025
“Launching from the semester’s end into summer is usually celebrated as a special kind of academic freedom, a chance to get lost in projects and flex your intellectual muscles. But what we’re hearing…
Emma Newcombe and Mabel Perez-Oquendo (Inside Higher Education, January 12, 2026)|Posted on January 20, 2026
“Perhaps more than ever, we are grateful to the career and professional development experts who wrote for “Carpe Careers” last year. Throughout these tumultuous times, they continued to share creative best practices and…
Ryan Quinn (Inside Higher Ed, January 2, 2026)|Posted on January 05, 2026
“This funding was stalled last year amid the Trump administration’s blunt moves to restrict research into certain disfavored topics, such as diversity, equity and inclusion—though researchers and state attorneys general said officials shot…
Chronicle of Higher Education (December 22, 2025)|Posted on January 05, 2026
Throughout the year, Chronicle journalists have reported the news that defines the sector. Reflecting on the economy, technology, politics, and more, we’ve analyzed the forces that shape your professional world. Higher education found itself…
L. Maren Wood (Chronicle of Higher Education, November 14, 2025)|Posted on November 18, 2025
…. “In my work with graduate students and postdocs, I encourage them to consider both faculty and industry options, and to start doing so early on in their doctoral study. But when it…
Jessica Black (Inside Higher Education, November 18, 2025)|Posted on November 18, 2025
[…] “From limiting the amount students and families can borrow to cutting the number of repayment plans they’ll have to choose from, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is one of the more…
“Notification of Update.” That was the generic subject line of the email that told UIC graduate student Clay Mizgerd he had won a newly created, $30,000 fellowship. When Mizgerd opened the note, however,…
Hillary Bird (UIC Today, August 29, 2025, updated September 23)|Posted on September 25, 2025
Two UIC alums and a current doctoral student will spend the 2025-26 school year abroad after accepting offers from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Each year, the Fulbright student program selects recent college graduates,…
Each discipline will have specialized job listings, but here are some more general places to look for post-degree employment: https://jobs.uic.edu https://networks.h-net.org/jobs/browse https://jobs.chronicle.com/ https://www.higheredjobs.com/ https://jobs.sciencecareers.org/
“[NIH] is telling researchers to limit the number of applications they submit and restrict how much they use artificial intelligence in writing their proposals. The agency announced last week that it will accept no…
Ellen Dobson and Anne-Sophie Bohrer (IHE, July 14, 2025)|Posted on July 14, 2025
“It’s never too early, but it can be too late. This simple phrase has transformed our advising sessions with graduate students and postdocs, resonating deeply with those navigating the uncertain waters of career…
Text by Jennifer Ruark, photographs by Ash Ponders, video by Ash Ponders and Michael Theis, interactive by Ron Coddington (Chronicle, July 3, 2025)|Posted on July 07, 2025
This instructive interactive piece shows the price tags for a cancer research lab and the sources of funding.
Karin Fischer (Chronicle of Higher Education, July 7, 2025)|Posted on July 07, 2025
“The United States has produced nearly three times the number of Nobel laureates as any other country. Its success dates back to World War II, when the foundation of the present-day research and…
The Chronicle [of Higher Education] is tracking executive orders, statements from Trump, and agency actions that affect higher education, plus legal challenges directed at those measures. The tracker focuses on four areas: civil…
Leonard Casuto (Chronicle of Higher Education, June 18, 2025)|Posted on June 24, 2025
“’It’s difficult to advise graduate students when you don’t even know what’s happening,’ a dean of a Midwestern graduate school said to me recently. The chaos and policy shock waves emanating from Washington…
Jennifer S. Furlong and Stacy M. Hartman (Chronicle of Higher Education, June 10, 2025)|Posted on June 24, 2025
“Nothing embodies doctoral training more than the adviser/advisee relationship. It can be a productive source of professional support in your life, a complete interpersonal disaster, or anywhere in between. And no topic of…
Jary Y. Delgado (Science, June 5, 2025)|Posted on June 06, 2025
“When I interviewed for my current tenure-track job, I had a stellar training background and solid publications over my 20-year career. But I was unemployed. I didn’t mention that fact, but my CV…
Gertrude Nonterah (Science, May 22, 2025)|Posted on June 06, 2025
“As it began to dawn on me that I was being laid off from my postdoc position, I tried not to panic. I told myself that with my Ph.D. and two bachelor’s degrees,…
L. Maren Wood (Chronicle of Higher Education, May 13, 2025)|Posted on May 19, 2025
"This will very likely be the worst job market in a generation, and many [graduate students and recent PhDs] lack strategies and support to manage the tumult."