Career Advice

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein considers the role of mentors and role models in creating a path for young black physicists.

Greta Perel offers some first steps for those thinking about alternative careers.

Are foundations offering appropriate assistance to 21st-century scholars for research and writing? Diana Thompson Vincelli explores the issue.

You can pursue some strategies as a manager to prevent issues ahead of time and to address them when they happen, advises Ellen de Graffenreid.

You need a plan for the start of a new job, writes Saundra Loffredo.

Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt offers strategies for when the right wing attacks.

Jennifer Polk and L. Maren Wood give advice on how to use networking to be just right for the job market.

Nicholas C. Burbules, C. K. Gunsalus, Robert A. Easter and BrandE Faupell have created a tool to help you diagnose problems in your academic unit and identify ways to improve it.