Career Advice

Gaeun Seo and Michael W. Zhang outline the mutual benefits for both graduate students and higher education administrators.

Those of us who work in higher education should purposefully attend to our important needs, even if only for a short time each day, write Janet Alexander and Beth Kelch.

Getting a doctorate is a lot more rewarding if you stop trying to be a good student and start acting like you’re running your own business, advises Ilana M. Horwitz.

During the pandemic, Douglas Guiffrida has found that the faculty who’ve succeeded in the new environment share a similar attitude that appears to be lacking among those who’ve struggled.

Institutions should take a more systematic approach to helping grad students and postdocs learn to communicate to potential employers the value and application of their work, argues Jovana Milosavljevic Ardeljan.

We are stepping into an environment where the stakes for defending the democratic university and the institution of tenure itself are arguably higher than ever, argues Megan A. Carney.

Only somewhat tongue-in-cheek, longtime presidential spouse Mort Maimon holds up his wife’s approach to retirement as a model for a new contest.

Jamie Landau has found that a communication and racial justice perspective has enabled her students -- and her -- to rediscover their voices.