Career Advice

When a professor supervises student work at an outside business, how does a department provide oversight? C.K. Gunsalus helps with the issues and the politics.

Rob Weir considers the administrative practices that make many professors reject the idea of a position outside the faculty ranks.

Kerry Ann Rockquemore wants you to reconsider the quest for the perfect mentor.

Peg Boyle Single identifies symptoms and treatments for a problem that can block writing.

Terri Givens, back in the faculty ranks, considers what she learned and why (when the time is right) she may go back.

Kerry Ann Rockquemore writes about the danger of fighting everything and of the danger of never expressing legitimate frustrations.

There are ways to phase in a move from higher ed to another kind of employment, writes Sabine Hikel.

Community colleges need to be cautious before hiring Ph.D.s who haven’t been trained for teaching at two-year institutions, and unemployed doctorates shouldn’t assume they are prepared for such jobs, writes Kory Lawson Ching.