Adolfo Valle for The Chronicle
We offer here a mix of essays from The Chronicle’s Advice columns (often focused on trends in academic work and life) and from Vitae (focused on practical, how-to advice for early-career academics and administrators). Now in its fourth year, with more than 840,000 members at more than 4,000 institutions, Vitae continues to offer free career-management tools and the best job openings. Last year The Chronicle debuted Vitae Recruiter, a new search tool designed to help employers find the best candidates for administrative, faculty, and staff positions in higher education. To read more — and to experience Vitae — please visit chroniclevitae.com. To find out more about Vitae Recruiter, please visit chroniclevitae.com/recruiter.
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Career ConfidentialAdministration 101: Deciding to Lead
Are you prepared for the types, scale, and severity of management challenges? -
Heads Up
Don’t Cry for Me, Academia!
For some of us, administrative work is not just an obligation or a noble sacrifice — it’s a calling. -
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First Person
The Small but Cool Moments of Faculty Life
At a time when things seem so strained in academe, it’s important to remember the good we can do. -
The Two-Year Track
The Top 5 Faculty Morale Killers
A good midlevel manager can make all the difference in determining whether faculty life is satisfying or unbearable. -
First Person
A Letter to Past Graduate-Student Me
Graduate school is an exercise in people not telling you things. -
The Graduate Adviser
How to Ask for a Recommendation
And how to supervise the faculty member writing it. -
First Person
Why New Humanities Ph.D.s Should Leave the Country
For too long, the U.S. academic job market has compelled us to see our careers in black and white. -
Career Confidential
The Completion Agenda, Part 5: Your Publishing Plan
What will you be expected to publish from your dissertation?
