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Denise K. Magner

Senior Editor, Advice & Careers

What I Do

I commission and edit opinion essays for The Chronicle’s Advice section. Written by academics for academics, these essays offer advice on a host of topics including searching for positions, developing your career, shifting into administration, teaching, doing research, moving up the ladder, and balancing work and life challenges.

My Background

I joined The Chronicle in 1988. After working as a general-assignment reporter for several years, I became a section editor, overseeing the paper’s coverage of workplace issues affecting the professional and personal lives of academics. In 2002, I became editor of the career-advice columns.

Connect

Email: denise.magner@chronicle.com

Recent Stories

Your Career
By Denise K. Magner May 19, 2025
How to shift your mindset as a campus administrator from dreading adversity to accepting its inevitability.
Your Career
By Denise K. Magner May 12, 2025
How to improve formal onboarding at the department level.
Your Career
By Denise K. Magner May 5, 2025
Adopting a few coaching techniques can make your mentoring both better and less time-consuming.
Your Career
By Denise K. Magner April 28, 2025
New or interim administrators often step into a trial by fire.
Your Career
By Denise K. Magner April 21, 2025
A lack of oversight and accountability allows abusive supervisors to operate unchecked in research labs.
Your Career
By Denise K. Magner April 14, 2025
Now is the time to start planning how to make the most of the academic-year break.
Your Career
By Denise K. Magner April 7, 2025
How to help your department through the hectic weeks before graduation.
Your Career
By Denise K. Magner March 31, 2025
What to do, and not do, in this sensitive but essential stage of the hiring process.
Your Career
By Denise K. Magner March 24, 2025
The old approach — professor as role model and advice giver — is no longer sustainable.
Your Career
By Denise K. Magner March 17, 2025
How to align the ideals of your vocation and the realities of your position.