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Dear Mentors: Summer Sucked. Now What?
Feeling guilty and bummed that you weren't more productive over the summer? Kerry Ann Rockquemore and Anthony Ocampo provide advice for moving ahead successfully in the new academic year.
The Vital Importance of First-Day Activities
No matter the class, the first day should be the time when instructors set the tone for the semester, writes Marguerite Mayhall.
How the Science of Well-Being Can Enhance Your Career
You can’t figure out which jobs have the possibility to become your vocation, writes Melissa Dalgleish, until you first figure out yourself and your signature strengths.
Solidarity in Times of Precarity
Carolyn Chernoff has a simple suggestion for this conference season and for academics in general: don’t leave your friends behind.
White Supremacy at Jefferson's University
A year after the violent protests in Charlottesville, Zari Taylor considers how the University of Virginia has had to address the issue.
Orange Harvest Moon
Heather Dubrow muses through poetry about the careers of humanities Ph.D.s.
Preparing for a Nonfaculty Job
Jennifer Polk and L. Maren Wood give advice for how to use your time in grad school to explore career options and gain experience.
Managing Your Reputation in a Time of Cultural Shift
Michael Bugeja endorses 10 tenets that may help you enhance your standing and effect positive change in your institution.