Career Advice

Jennifer M. Gómez writes of her tendency as a new faculty member of color to highlight the systemic wrongs she's experienced while ignoring the potential for change her position now allows.

Zachary Michael Jack remembers a colleague who taught him life lessons that were as valuable -- and then some -- as the merely strategic advice of how to impress superiors, win tenure and climb the academic ladder.

Junior Prof shares advice from two leading university press editors about first-time book authorship.

Jo Guldi learns a lesson from students who embrace the challenge of high academic standards.

James M. Van Wyck recommends that Ph.D. students make at least three mental shifts about time as they negotiate graduate school.

Thanks to the efforts of the software salesforce, almost every request a faculty member used to make simply and in seconds is now unnecessarily complicated, argues Jacqueline Foertsch.

Francine Mahak discusses the different context and expectations of such an audience and offers practical tips for graduate students.

Far too often, researchers’ scholarly and creative achievements simply become lines on curriculum vitae, argue Scott Slovic and Janet E. Nelson, who offer recommendations for change.