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If you are a graduate student contemplating careers outside the professoriate, you can take several steps before graduation to prepare for that...
Justus H. Hunter provides tips for successfully surviving the dissertation process.
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,...
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...
We Ph.D.s have more in common with industrial workers in the Rust Belt than we often realize, writes Michael Zimm.
Derek Attig provides resources to show how others have handled the exciting yet challenging process of figuring out what comes next.
President Trump on Tuesday ordered an end to the Obama-era executive action that shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation and called...
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...
Adriana Bankston offers the following advice for being a good team leader both in academe and outside it.
Doctorate, publication(s), postdoctoral fellowship, teaching experience: the list of common qualifications for a tenure-track academic job gets...
Maria Shine Stewart provides some advice for dealing with particularly difficult students in the classroom.
What sustains faculty members are relationships with others, write Jennifer Lundquist and Joya Misra, who outline how to identify mentors and how...
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...
When Tina Cheuk discovered firsthand that academe can still penalize women in their childbearing years, she founded a network for positive change...
Finding your passion in one particular area and cultivating it more intensely is a useful strategy, advises Adriana Bankston.
We in higher education must make it easier for first-generation students to find staff and faculty members who are dedicated to improving such...
Academics can -- and should -- speak to the general public, and they can do so without compromising their scholarly lives, argue Christopher...
Higher ed should redefine customer service, argues Yan Dominic Searcy, and craft policy with the public -- not the student -- most in mind.
Thomas Magaldi gives advice on how to overcome long-held yet false assumptions that often drive behavior and limit opportunities.
You should always focus on making your networking contacts feel good -- and make sure your interaction is a positive experience for them, advises...