Career Advice

Engage mentors to figure out the best career path, even if that path is outside academe or isn't what a mentor may have initially expected, writes Stephanie K. Eberle.

Venkat Viswanathan was intrigued by the prospect of creating and teaching a massive open online course. As it begins, he offers other instructors his lessons learned -- with encouragement and caution.

A year after Patrick Iber's story of rejection captured so much attention, he offers an update.

It's normal for graduate students to feel a bit intimidated sometimes, but they need to remind themselves that they belong and that they are learning, writes Stephen J. Aguilar.

Lori A. Flores offers tips for getting the thing done.

Kerry Ann Rockquemore takes a question about an offer to write a textbook and discusses the need to have a system for figuring out when to say yes and when not to.

Jake Livengood creates a bracket for the new Ph.D. seeking a position.

A confluence of events kept Kevin Brown out of the classroom for almost a month last semester. Here's what he learned about his students, his colleagues and his teaching.