Career Advice

Erin M. O’Mara Kunz was at a loss about how to get out of hers, but after posting a tweet, she received feedback from other professors that was overwhelming in the best way possible.

Erica M. Dolson reflects on her old grading practices and how she switched to new ones because of a very human experience: frustration.

Ph.D.s can identify appropriate career paths by conducting a self-assessment, networking and identifying their skills gaps and how to fill them, writes Mabel Perez-Oquendo.

Our antiracism work on campuses often fails to examine how such pervasive, systemic whiteness protects itself, writes Michael H. Gavin.

In an era of disruption, when top administrators face intense scrutiny, key characteristics can foster resilience and model traits that reflect the core of university life, writes Michael Patullo.

How, in a polarized nation, Steph Liberatore asks, should we be teaching argument in the academy? Should we be focusing less on persuasion and more on understanding?

There has to be a better approach, one that doesn’t involve leaving academe or staying yet simply slogging through each day with little to no enthusiasm, writes Rebecca Vidra.

If you have experienced such fears once, you’ll probably confront them again as your career advances, writes Angela Fowler, who recommends having a set of tools that will assist you in overcoming them.