Career Advice

David A. McDonald gives advice for talking to your adviser about nonacademic career plans.

A major concern for trans people today is the process of legally changing one’s name, as well as one’s gender marker, on official college records, writes Katriel Paige.

Stacy Jane Grover gives advice on how to avoid curriculum choices that exoticize, tokenize and discipline the experiences of transgender and gender-nonconforming students.

Many of us in academe might find that we have important expertise to share in surprising ways, writes Jason D. Seacat.

Humanities departments need to recognize today’s job market and change the tenure-or-bust attitude that’s still too prevalent on many campuses, writes Marcus Cederström.

Megan Condis explores why so few students take advantage of office hours and gives some tips on how to get more of them to do so.

When graduate students are searching for jobs, should they disclose any disabilities they may have? Sue Levine explores the question.

For many disabled scholars, the choices they face when negotiating job market accommodations are deeply complex, fraught and risky, argue Jay Dolmage and Stephanie Kerschbaum.