The Graduate Adviser
What Are Low-Ranked Graduate Programs Good For?
Too many Ph.D. programs are too focused on what's going on above them.
An Academic in America
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Surviving the Next Apocalypse: a Modest Curriculum
If American culture is going to endure, we need to remain obsessed about the end times.
- No More Indiana Jones Warehouses
- It's Your Duty to Be Miserable!
- 'Once an Eagle, Always an Eagle'?
Balancing Act
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Not Taking Time Off
When her husband got sick, a professor could have applied for an emergency family leave. So why didn't she?
- Title IX and Babies: The New Frontier?
- The Future of the Ph.D.
- The Next Step for Female Scientists
Beyond the Ivory Tower
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Location, Location, Location
The reasons that some Ph.D.'s do not apply for jobs in, say, North Dakota rarely have to do with elitism.
- Turning 'Plan B' Into a 'Plan A' Life
- Writing for History Buffs
- Our Secret Nonacademic Histories
Career Confidential
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You Can Go Home for the Holidays
Here's how to cope with family tensions about the nature and focus of your academic work.
Catalyst
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A Remarkable Number of Women
"Harmless" comments directed at groups of female scientists aren't so harmless in a male-dominated field.
- One-Sentence Mentoring
- Wearing Me Out
- Dear Sir
Elsewhere in The Chronicle
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MLA Sessions Keep the Focus on Adjuncts
A panel discussion and a speech by the association's president emphasize the problems faced by instructors off the tenure track.
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As Michigan Becomes a 'Right to Work' State, College Unions Plan Next Moves
The laws take effect within months, but restrictions on how unions collect dues will not apply to local units until their current contracts expire.
- 'Metro' Unionizing Strategy Is Viewed as a Means to Empower Adjunct Faculty
Latest Manage-Your-Career Columns
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What Our CV's Don't Say
Behind all those simple lines on our vitas lurk our triumphs, failures, and defeats.
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Don't Underestimate NSF's New Grant-Submission Rules
Pay attention to changes in the science foundation's submission process or your grant proposal will be spat back at you.
- 7 Resolutions to Advance Your Career
- Are You My Mentor?
- What Search Committees Wish You Knew
Recent Advice Columns
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From Academic to Schoolteacher and Novelist
A Ph.D. leaves behind academe and scholarship for high-school teaching and writing novels.
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Sending the Term Paper Back into the Game
The 15-week, 20-page research project is still worth assigning to undergraduates.
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Why Don't They Apply What They've Learned, Part I
Getting students to transfer knowledge from one context to another is a much more complicated process than many of us expect.
First Person
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From Academic to Schoolteacher and Novelist
A Ph.D. leaves behind academe and scholarship for high-school teaching and writing novels.
- Sending the Term Paper Back into the Game
- What Our CV's Don't Say
Moving Up
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Seeking a Different Sort of Leader
Candidates espousing a consensus-oriented leadership style are having a tougher time making it past the preliminary round of a search.
- The Education of a Provost
- Rent-a-Dean
More Advice
Peer Review
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Rocker/Academic Leads New Institute for Popular Music at U. of Rochester
John Covach, the institute's founding director, has worked hard to give the study of popular music the same prestige as the study of classical music.
- U. of Michigan Master's Student Becomes First 'Wikipedian in Residence' at Presidential Library
- Longtime Dean Sees Ever-Expanding Role for Nurses With Advanced Degrees
First Time on the Market?
Going on the academic job market for the first time? Here are some things you should know.
The CV Doctor
Our experts offer advice on preparing strong academic CV's and résumés for nonacademic jobs.
