Career Advice

Rebecca Bodenheimer describes the trials and frustrations of attending academic conferences when you’re unaffiliated.

Adriana Bankston offers the following advice for being a good team leader both in academe and outside it.

Irene Sanchez pays tribute to the person who saw something in her on the days that she couldn’t see it in herself anymore.

Joya Misra and Jennifer Lundquist asked faculty members from different disciplines whom colleagues and students had identified as excellent mentors to share their lessons with others in academe.

Rather than encourage women and people of color to do less service work, we should be encouraging white men to step forward and do more, argues Shannon Portillo.

Maria Shine Stewart provides some advice for dealing with particularly difficult students in the classroom.

Employers are increasingly requiring job applicants to demonstrate both commitment and contributions to diversity, equity and inclusion, writes Deborah S. Willis, who gives advice to graduate students on how to do so.

How we as teachers look and comport ourselves can impact the learning experience, and as an adjunct, I do not feel safe bringing my sexuality into the classroom, writes Jeana Jorgensen.