Career Advice

Deans are struggling with similar issues across disciplines and have ideas for grappling successfully with them, but we’re often an underutilized campus resource, writes Marie Chisholm-Burns.

Offering exams in that format can be beneficial to both the instructor and the students in multiple ways, writes Kevin Sun, who provides recommendations for faculty who are considering it.

The ups and downs of building a dissertation -- the process itself -- are components of academic work that we should reflect on, learn from and share with each other, argues Lucy H. Partman.

People can progress and grow in different ways, writes Lauren Easterling, who raises questions to help you think through what that might specifically look like for you.

Going online during the pandemic has revealed how struggles for justice, inclusion and equity necessitate that faculty women of color reimagine the spatial organization of institutional power, write Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt, Patti Duncan and Marie Lo.

What I had at this critical moment of parting was my computer screen -- and my anticipated invisibility, as I would soon shuffle off into oblivion, writes Leah Blatt Glasser.

Remote teaching has revealed the importance for students of learning new skills and taking creative risks without being watched, argues Maggie Melo.

It offers exciting new ways to learn, create and disseminate research, write 11 scholars, who offer concrete ideas for how to harness it as a productive tool for teaching and scholarship.