Career Advice

Providing students with skills they will use throughout their lives as writers should be part of graduate education, no matter what career paths they choose, writes Rebecca Alpert.

Active learning has been clearly shown to be more effective than traditional modes, write Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis, who outline its many merits to those who continue to resist it.

Such assistance can be leveraged in five key ways to make a big difference for students, writes Jennifer Ahern-Dodson.

Taking a fresh look at how you tell your workplace story may help renew your zest for research, affirm your value and steer you in the right direction, Victoria McGovern writes.

Lindsay Hansen Brown outlines what you can do to stand out when applying for an academic library job.

Rebecca Alpert explores what we should be teaching graduate students in the humanities today—such as how to navigate writing a book-length work.

Now is the time to take a leadership role and help faculty members understand that we actually know a lot about teaching and learning, writes Christopher M. Hakala.

Or I won’t send my students to you, writes Emily Heffernan, voicing her concern about how many leave STEM (and other) fields due to bad mentoring experiences.