Career Advice

How can researchers who study higher education better influence the (often flawed) public debate about colleges and universities? Rhonda McClellan and Joshua Powers offer suggestions.

Susan Resneck Pierce considers the qualities that help some new presidents succeed -- and the misjudgments that hold others back.

Hester Blum read 740 essays in a year from people seeking positions or grants. She explains how some people impress, and how seemingly small slips doom others' chances.

With Maria Shine Stewart out of pocket, a guest author offers an alternative point of view on kindness. Me first!

Women are excelling in senior posts at universities, writes Sue V. Rosser, but researchers who leave the faculty ranks before becoming full professors may limit their careers.

Young academics need to learn when to share information and when not to, writes Nate Kreuter.

Elizabeth H. Simmons shares a set of inexpensive, reinforcing strategies that have worked to inspire faculty members at her institution -- and might apply to yours, too.