Career Advice

While such visits are unpredictable, both the candidate and the host can do a few things to be prepared for the unexpected, a junior professor advises.

A menu of programs and supports could help draw and keep top talent, writes Kay Kimball Gruder, who offers some specific suggestions.

An English professor laments the downsizing of liberal arts and humanities programs and departments by college administrators bent on promoting more "job-oriented" disciplines.

What professional development experience, Kiernan Mathews asks, would compel chief academic officers to leave their work (and families) behind to become better leaders?

Unfortunately, many people still have backward ideas about the ability of women to succeed in academe after having children, writes Terri E. Givens.

Zachary Nowak, a new instructor, gives his recommendations.

Natalie Lundsteen offers advice for graduate trainees and postdocs negotiating the dos and don'ts of drinking alcohol at professional events when potential employers are present -- and watching.

A professor of gender and women's studies questions the arbitrariness and biases of scholarly standards for so-called lowbrow subjects and activities.