Career Advice

To effectively direct your career once you are tenured, you should always determine your next move, eliminate distractions and enroll other people in your vision, advises Kerry Ann Rockquemore.

To be successful, faculty members must go beyond teaching the material, writes Matthew J. Wright. We must care deeply about students and show it.

When your work isn’t making you happy, take charge of your career happiness and figure out what will bring you joy, advises Natalie Lundsteen.

Before we travel to national and international conferences to hear from other scholars, perhaps we should provide more platforms to learn from those within our own institutions, writes Ruth Gotian.

We should move toward a pedagogy of sadness, anger and love, writes Jenny Heineman.

Don Haviland, Anna M. Ortiz and Laura Henriques give advice on how to understand your institution’s timeline, criteria and unwritten expectations.

Just because you’ve gained tenure doesn’t mean you don’t need mentoring, writes Kerry Ann Rockquemore, who gives advice on how to find a whole new supportive group of people.

Academe’s standardized processes can strip our work of personal meaning, writes Janelle Ward, who recommends how to approach teaching and research in new ways.