Posts from On Hiring
We often talk of a spirit of shared vocation in our fields, but it’s rare to see such fellowship meaningfully expressed in academic settings, George David Clark writes.
Allison Vaillancourt offers advice to a new hire who is struggling to make the transition from individual contributor to senior leader.
A professor considers adding a section on respect to his syllabus.
A young female scientist explains why she turned down a tenure-track job offer.
Think you can avoid the corporate world by going into college teaching? Think again, Jeanne Zaino says.
How should you respond to being called out on your privilege? The same way you’d respond to being caught with your zipper down, a deep-sea biologist explains.
A postdoc in astrophysics finds that the formula for keeping your academic hopes alive is completely at odds with the formula for keeping your relationship alive.
Companies already pay big money to universities for naming rights. Why stop there?, an economics professor asks.
Rob Jenkins explains why job seekers should tailor those, too.
If you are waiting to play “gotcha” with your students, don’t be surprised if they’re waiting to get you, too, David Evans says.