Career Advice

Follow your dream, but don’t hold your breath, advises Eric Jager, author of The Last Duel, who highlights the importance of luck, timing and the help of key people.

Nicole C. Livengood discusses her banned books class and offers suggestions for small tasks to help students in a range of courses develop the skills for engaging in civil discourse.

Bruce Taylor offers lessons from an almost 40-year career as a university expat.

It defines who you are as a job seeker, what you are looking for, what you would like to achieve and, most important, what people associate with your name, writes Ketan Marballi.

The practice of co-authored chapters in a dissertation is deeply troubling and seems to defeat the purpose of demonstrating the ability to do original research, argues James Finkelstein.

Meg A. Warren and Samit D. Bordoloi describe the actions exceptional male allies take—beyond just being decent and reasonable colleagues—that women find most valuable.

Michael Roth writes about how he personally experienced the important things that can happen when you distribute opportunity more widely.

Administrators have used it as a catalyst for transforming their policies and procedures to honor the important roles both tenured and non-tenure-track faculty members play, writes Adrianna Kezar.