Career Advice

Chris Blattman offers ideas on how to approach a professor to help you on part of the process for getting into a grad program or landing an academic job.

In the second essay in a two-part series, Elizabeth Simmons advises instructors on how they can best evaluate their faculty peers.

Western academics can find good positions and plenty of the comforts they crave (with a better standard of living) far from home, writes William Roden.

The way to keep electronic communication under control is to set expectations for professors and for students, writes Nate Kreuter.

In the first of a two-part series on yearly reviews, Elizabeth Simmons suggests how faculty members can frame their self-evaluative essays in ways that help them and their institutions.

Efforts to diversify faculties will work only if diverse candidates are under consideration, write Armando Bengochea and Roger Brooks. They offer ideas on how to make that likely.

To get hired, you need to master the six elements of a professional persona, writes Karen Kelsky.

Stock up on kindness to confront perils of winter, Maria Shine Stewart suggests.