Kevin Van Aelst for The Chronicle
Academic culture, departmental politics, novels about faculty life — all of those topics and more are featured in this long-standing advice column in The Chronicle.
Ms. Mentor
How best to deal with a colleague who spends too much time fuming.
Ms. Mentor
Warning: Reading books with your colleagues can make you mad.
Advice
A youngish professor wonders if teaching ‘adult enrichment’ courses will damage her prospects.
Ms. Mentor
So much for the classics; time to break open the juicy academic novels.
Ms. Mentor
Five classic texts about professors and learning for your summer reading list.
Faculty Harasser
What to do about the unwelcome amorous overtures of a senior colleague.
Ms. Mentor
My colleague makes people miserable, and it’s holding her career back.
Ms. Mentor
What to do when you loathe the changes made to your manuscript.
Ms. Mentor
How not to treat a senior eminence whose manuscript you’ve solicited.
Advice
Spend at least part of your summer reading about fictional campus life.
Ms. Mentor
Spend at least part of your summer reading about fictional campus life.
Ms. Mentor
A new program head frets about his exclusion from a department meeting.
Ms. Mentor
Sure, the reasons you didn’t get an interview could be personal. But they probably aren’t.
Ms. Mentor
A master’s student who is thinking about seeking a doctorate asks, “Shouldn’t I do what I do best?”