Career Advice

Without that extra push of likability, and often without senior scholars like us who can mentor us along the way, we have to work harder and smarter to succeed in academe, writes Shannon Craigo-Snell.

Laura Beard offers nine lessons those who work in higher education can learn from baseball.

How can you find time to be both a scholar and an activist? Kerry Ann Rockquemore describes five models for pursuing both roles.

How can professors best introduce provocative material in the classroom in an age of trigger warnings, microaggressions and tweeting? Michael Bugeja tackles the issue.

Saundra Loffredo offers a four-step process to help you answer those challenging interview questions that require you to draw on previous experiences.

Claiming that “mesearch” is a particular issue for scholars of color demonstrates a profound lack of self-awareness on the part of researchers in the social sciences and humanities, argues Victor Ray.

As high-achieving women in academe, we are not impostors, writes Claudine Keenan, but have earned our way -- regardless of the pathways we have followed.

Patrick Iber provides guidance on how to make Twitter work for academic purposes.