Career Advice

Jennifer Polk and L. Maren Wood give advice for Ph.D.s struggling to find their values and their voice after leaving the academy.

Djahane Banoo and Martin Gutmann explain why building expertise rather than gaining transferable skills is the key to alternative-academic employability.

Stephanie K. Eberle recommends what type of adviser you should choose to get the best career support along the way.

The lack of citations of scholars of color furthers racial dominance and forecloses potentially valuable avenues of intellectual inquiry, argues Victor Ray.

In their haste to deal with a problem quickly, deans shouldn't forget the importance of examining it from many different angles, write Carolyn R. Hodges and Olga M. Welch.

C. K. Gunsalus, Nicholas C. Burbules, Robert A. Easter and Jeremy D. Meuser recommend five steps for managing conflicts and disputes.

A professor and a person can perish on the way to publishing, writes Robert Zaretsky.

It takes some practice, but if you know and understand the basics, you can become much better at it, advises Gaia Vasiliver-Shamis.