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Posted: Oct 09, 2017
If you are a graduate student contemplating careers outside the professoriate, you can take several steps before graduation to prepare for that...
Posted: Oct 05, 2017
Justus H. Hunter provides tips for successfully surviving the dissertation process.
Posted: Sep 29, 2017
Most Ph.D.s in the natural sciences and engineering leave academe because of the difficult job market, not because they want to, right? Wrong,...
Posted: Sep 26, 2017
Higher education groups on Monday began to grapple with what new restrictions on travel to the U.S. from eight countries imposed Sunday night by...
Posted: Sep 26, 2017
We Ph.D.s have more in common with industrial workers in the Rust Belt than we often realize, writes Michael Zimm.
Posted: Sep 25, 2017
Derek Attig provides resources to show how others have handled the exciting yet challenging process of figuring out what comes next.
Posted: Sep 05, 2017
President Trump on Tuesday ordered an end to the Obama-era executive action that shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation and called...
Posted: Aug 28, 2017
Many new Ph.D.s in humanities disciplines report that they struggle to find academic jobs, and that many of the positions they find available are...
Posted: Aug 28, 2017
Adriana Bankston offers the following advice for being a good team leader both in academe and outside it.
Posted: Aug 23, 2017
Doctorate, publication(s), postdoctoral fellowship, teaching experience: the list of common qualifications for a tenure-track academic job gets...
Posted: Aug 22, 2017
Maria Shine Stewart provides some advice for dealing with particularly difficult students in the classroom.
Posted: Jul 13, 2017
What sustains faculty members are relationships with others, write Jennifer Lundquist and Joya Misra, who outline how to identify mentors and how...
Posted: Jul 10, 2017
It’s an excellent way for Ph.D.s and postdocs to articulate how their skills might add value to organizations that lie outside their traditional...
Posted: Jul 06, 2017
When Tina Cheuk discovered firsthand that academe can still penalize women in their childbearing years, she founded a network for positive change...
Posted: Jul 03, 2017
Finding your passion in one particular area and cultivating it more intensely is a useful strategy, advises Adriana Bankston.
Posted: Jun 08, 2017
We in higher education must make it easier for first-generation students to find staff and faculty members who are dedicated to improving such...
Posted: Jun 07, 2017
Academics can -- and should -- speak to the general public, and they can do so without compromising their scholarly lives, argue Christopher...
Posted: Jun 05, 2017
Higher ed should redefine customer service, argues Yan Dominic Searcy, and craft policy with the public -- not the student -- most in mind.
Posted: Jun 05, 2017
Thomas Magaldi gives advice on how to overcome long-held yet false assumptions that often drive behavior and limit opportunities.
Posted: May 22, 2017
You should always focus on making your networking contacts feel good -- and make sure your interaction is a positive experience for them, advises...