Adam Levy (NATURE CAREERS PODCAST 19 February 2026)|Posted on February 19, 2026
“Alison Behie was approaching 40 when she underwent multiple rounds of IVF, enduring the mental and physical turmoil of miscarriage and uncertainty along the way. How good is the academic workplace at supporting…
Lauren Ashley Lane (HigherEd Jobs, February 13, 2026)|Posted on February 19, 2026
In this episode of the HigherEdJobs Podcast, Leah Jackson, assistant director of editorial strategy joins co-hosts Andy Hibel and Kelly Cherwin to talk about what comes after the job offer and why starting a…
Jessica Blake (Inside Higher Education, February 13, 2026)|Posted on February 17, 2026
“The National Science Foundation has started returning applications for its Graduate Research Fellowship Program to the students who submitted them without review, STAT News and Eos reported. Each year about 12,000 graduate and undergraduate students apply…
Sarah Rose Cavanagh and Jennifer Herman (Chronicle of Higher Education, January 7, 2026)|Posted on January 26, 2026
“Academics are struggling with motivation, burnout, and engagement amid what seems a rapid dwindling of support structures for…work.” While pitched to faculty members — the word “faculty” was removed from the original title for…
Stella Huili Si and Giorgio Marinoni (University World News, 14 January 2026)|Posted on January 26, 2026
“For a growing number of students, the move from university to work is neither linear nor predictable. Many describe occupying an ‘in-between’ space: between disciplines, between countries, between academic identities and professional expectations.…
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…