Career Advice

William G. Tierney shares some of the practices he cultivated during his years on the tenure track that have held him in good stead at a new stage of his life.

Kathryn Welby provides advice for how you can provide accommodations while also maintaining high standards.

Writers and applicants should collaborate to reduce the power differential, among other benefits, write Rebecca E. Burnett, Rebekah Fitzsimmons, Courtney A. Hoffman and Patricia R. Taylor.

How do we optimize the learning environment in academic research labs, Patrick Brandt asks, and what must we do when the environment is toxic to trainees?

Andrea Y. Simpson reflects on how the phrase, as interpreted at so many institutions, can undermine the goals of diversity and inclusivity, as well as limit the scope of first-rate scholarship.

When you rarely, if ever, see your students in person, Mai P. Trinh asks, how do you develop supportive relationships and help them successfully finish their degrees and advance their careers?

Colleges must consider the steps they should take to prepare for a new type of learning, including teaching students how to cultivate virtual identities, write JT Torres and Marissa C. McKinley.

Terry O’Banion offers 10 guidelines for successfully transforming your work into an academic article (or two) that reaches more readers.