First Person
Two Ph.D. candidates experience a brief and unexpected respite from the
usual coldness and bad manners of the hiring process.
Career News
Financial analysts predict that small, tuition-dependent colleges with
modest endowments could close during this recession, but the president of
one such college is counting on its strengths to help it survive.
The Adjunct Track
When will we realize it's time to take advantage of the economic turmoil and
restructure the faculty labor system?
Ms. Mentor
She thought her tormenters were gone forever, but now they may be coming
back to town.
Academic Assets
Financial intelligence starts with taking advantage of your university's
retirement match.
The Fund Raiser
It may sound counterintuitive, but now is the time to travel to your best
donors and talk about their philanthropic goals.
First Person
For a new Ph.D. searching for her first job in her field, the line between
the two can be blurry.
On Course
In a new book, an assistant professor of English finds radical new sources
of inspiration for his discipline in K-12 classrooms.
Page Proof
How to avoid hurt feelings and battered relationships when friends turn to
you for a close read.
First Person
An Illinois liberal-arts college bucks the trend and goes on a hiring binge.
Academic Assets
It is particularly urgent now for academics to attend to their savings and spending.
First Person
A veteran academic offers advice on what to expect at conference interviews
and how to conduct yourself.
Balancing Act
Female undergraduate and graduate students voted for Obama in great
numbers. So what do they want from him now?
The Two-Year Track
Sometimes our own actions and attitudes unwittingly reinforce the negative
stereotypes about community colleges.
Heads Up
E-mail has been around long enough that you'd think we would have learned
how to handle it by now.
An Academic in America
The business culture that dominates today's museums has no room for the eccentricities of introverted curators.
The Adjunct Track
The predictable reaction to recent studies about part-time instructors is as
insightful as the data.
First Person
A case of sexual harassment and mistaken identity in the digital age.
Moving Up
How the science of economics is instrumental in helping a president run his
university.
Career Talk
Preparing to attend your first big academic convention? Here's what you need
to consider.
First Person
The process of revising a grant proposal can help you turn piecemeal work
into a coherent whole.
First Person
The choice between a job in industry or academic science would be easy if it
really were a binary decision.
Career Talk
Our experts evaluate the CV's of three faculty-job candidates and an
administrator seeking to move up.
Career News
College workers in midcareer are most likely to express negative feelings about their jobs, The Chronicle's first extensive survey of college workplaces has found.