Career Advice

Sydney Freeman Jr. and Nicholas D. Hartlep suggest some perhaps-overlooked options for faculty members interested in pursuing these positions.

Diane A. Safer provides specific recommendations for both a career counselor guiding Ph.D. grads and postdocs before they start new positions as well as those trainees once they’re on the job.

With tongue in cheek, Christina Wyman shares a campus leader’s plans for the year ahead -- and especially for this implicit bias module season.

Jacob J. Ryder, Nicolas C. Burbules, BrandE Faupell and C. K. Gunsalus offer advice to academics for enhancing the vital quality of emotional intelligence in their work groups.

Maggie Coughlin shares some lessons she’s learned in understanding her own autism and how to work with her neurodiversity and that of the students she teaches.

Campus visits for job candidates can often create obstacles that especially impact applicants with disabilities, write Nazely Kurkjian and Ann R. Hawkins.

Alan Martino reflects on his and others’ experiences navigating campus job visits and onboarding processes for new hires -- and provides some suggestions for improvement.

Jovana Milosavljevic Ardeljan explores how students can best navigate academe’s hidden curriculum of implicit and unwritten expectations, values and rules.