Career Advice

For scholars whose academic work touches on contentious issues, Nicole Bedera shares nine tactics to ensure that online engagement remains civil and meaningful.

Engaging larger publics and influencing policy through one's scholarship can be personally rewarding, but such work too often goes unrecognized in university systems of evaluation, write Joya Misra and Jennifer Lundquist.

Kerry Ann Rockquemore offers five questions to ask yourself if you’re newly tenured and in a crisis-ridden department.

Eric Farwell provides four ideas to help interest today’s students, who seem to want to read only increasingly shorter pieces, in English and literature courses.

David A. McDonald gives advice for talking to your adviser about nonacademic career plans.

A major concern for trans people today is the process of legally changing one’s name, as well as one’s gender marker, on official college records, writes Katriel Paige.

Stacy Jane Grover gives advice on how to avoid curriculum choices that exoticize, tokenize and discipline the experiences of transgender and gender-nonconforming students.

Many of us in academe might find that we have important expertise to share in surprising ways, writes Jason D. Seacat.