Career Advice

Elizabeth Simmons offers a dean's perspective on how faculty members up for tenure should approach deal with the process of identifying external evaluators.

Russ Olwell offers advice on how arts and humanities faculty members can achieve his suggestion for a New Year's resolution.

Academics who become administrators need to unlearn behaviors they embraced as faculty members, writes Robert J. Sternberg.

Nate Kreuter writes about his frustrations with academics who look down on the communities where they teach.

What should you do when you feel like bursting the cartoon bubble over your colleague’s head? Or your own? An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, Maria Shine Stewart prescribes.

The best mentoring colleges could provide junior faculty members would be to offer clear guidelines for tenure and promotion, writes Kerry Ann Rockquemore.

Sitting on his first search committee in a while, Donald A. Coffin is shocked by all the ways candidates hurt their chances.

Terri E. Givens considers how she and other academics cope when personal challenges become overwhelming.