Career Advice

Herb Childress describes how a successful book contract led to his academic career’s end.

Well into her career as a university leader, Suzanne Shipley describes the experience of accepting a job in the town where she grew up.

You should always focus on making your networking contacts feel good -- and make sure your interaction is a positive experience for them, advises Joseph Barber.

Academic departments normalize sexual violence when they look the other way as faculty members abuse their power in harassing or assaulting junior faculty and/or students, argues Donovan A. Steinberg.

Leonard Cassuto writes of the person with whom he shared his high school, college and graduate school years -- and how the story of the divergent paths they later took continues to vex him.

Employment agreements for presidents are becoming increasingly complex and bear little resemblance to the typical appointment letters for faculty leaders or other senior administrators, write James Finkelstein and Judith Wilde.

Terri E. Givens describes her advancement through high school and college -- and how Ph.D. programs should value students from unconventional backgrounds who take on more than expected.

The classrooms that we as professors have tried to create -- spaces where inequities are voiced and the status quo challenged -- are becoming reality, writes Lynn Cockett. The problem is we now represent that status quo.