Denise K. Magner
Senior Editor, Advice & Careers
The Chronicle of Higher Education
202-466-1065
Denise K. Magner joined The Chronicle in 1988 as a reporter and was editor of its Faculty section until 2002, when she became editor of the career-advice columns for academics and administrators.
Stories by this Author
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Your CareerWould Your Presentations Benefit From the ‘Pitch Deck’?
How to adapt a popular business tool to improve your pitches and talks. -
Your Career
Making Space for Neurodiversity on Campus
Ignore autism and other mental diagnoses, and you overlook a sizable slice of faculty and staff. -
Your Career
How to Build a Better Meeting
So many meetings in higher ed are boring, unproductive, and contentious. It doesn’t have to be that way. -
Your Career
How to Tell When It’s Time to Quit
What are the pros and cons of jumping from an institution that appears to be a sinking ship? -
Your Career
How to Conquer the Dreaded Blank Page
A few tricks for getting started at the very beginning of a new writing project. -
Your Career
Should Your Campus Grow More of Its Own Staff Members?
Higher education needs to rethink how it hires and rewards staff employees. -
Your Career
What Can You Learn About Your Own Writing From ChatGPT?
It’s not easy to write like a human when AI or the worn-in grooves of scholarly habits are right there at hand. -
Your Career
Online Versus In-Person Job Interviews
Do virtual interviews make the job market slightly less ghastly and far more equitable for everyone? -
Your Career
How Strong Lectures Can Spawn Strong Writing
Many of the moves that the best teachers make on the stage can translate to the page. -
Your Career
How to Control the Rhythm of a Class Discussion
Effective class discussions — much like effective lectures — are a result of careful planning.
