This special supplement features advice and opinion columns written by academics and former academics about a wide range of career issues facing tenured and tenure-track professors, adjuncts, graduate students, administrators, and Ph.D.s seeking nonacademic careers.
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AdviceWhat Will Doctoral Education Look Like in 2025?
Predictions and hopes for the future of Ph.D. training. -
First Person
How to Be an Adjunct (and Also a Cliché)
A part-timer comes to realize that she is neither incompetent nor insane. -
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First Person
The Tenured Entrepreneur
Haven’t gotten a raise in several years? It’s time to peddle your skills on the open market. -
First Person
Advice for Next Year’s Chair
They’ll tell you about tenure and hiring. Here’s what they won’t tell you. -
First Person
The Art of the Rejection Letter
This is why departments should seek kinder ways to bid job candidates farewell. -
Career Talk
Knowing When to Say When
You’ve been through several rounds of the academic hiring cycle. Is it time to move on? -
Beyond the Ivory Tower
Why It’s So Hard to Leave Academe
Rational people have good reasons for staying in an academic-employment system that has failed them. -
Beyond The Ivory Tower
‘So What Are You Going to Do With That?’
Has academe’s attitude toward nonacademic careers for Ph.D.’s changed much in a decade?
