Career Advice

Despite all the current challenges, higher education remains one of the best places to work and to contribute your knowledge, skills and gifts, KerryAnn O’Meara, Kristen Renn and D-L Stewart argue.

Mays Imad explores seven ways professors can help students thrive in class in times of trauma.

Michael G. Strawser offers advice for how academic administrators can help faculty respond to increased teaching, research and service expectations while dealing with a global virus.

As we approach a new faculty hiring season this fall, given the uncertainty of how many positions will be available, you need to be proactive, advises Chris Smith.

We call on ourselves as scholars to engage a wider audience in our work, but we must acknowledge the risks and consequences some of us face for doing so, write Laurie Cooper Stoll and Darci L. Thoune.

Roger H. Martin gives comfort to those who were in the process of writing a book or long article about higher education but must now reconsider almost everything in it.

The pandemic has offered a perfect, organic opportunity to give students the time and purpose to reflect on and appreciate the history they’re living, writes Marc Muneal.

Given that academe promises to have more limited opportunities in the coming months, Robert Alford suggests ways advisers can help Ph.D.s pursue a variety of professions beyond it.