The Graduate Adviser

Not every academic can or should do public outreach, but those who do it well benefit all of academe.

Major universities have been slow to acknowledge the collapse of the tenure-track job market. A new report from Yale changes that.

A career-diversity program overseas is worth replicating at American universities.

Yes, academics miss our in-person scholarly meetups. But the online version of the annual MLA convention had its own virtues.

In a barren tenure-track market, we must consider what, exactly, we are preparing doctoral students to do.

Many doctoral students feel a crisis of purpose amid Covid-19: Should they bother to keep writing?

Amid the uncertainties created by the global pandemic, what our doctoral students may need more than usual is structure.

Where are the white guys when we talk about changing the way Ph.D.s are advised and trained?

What if departments could gain prestige from how they treated their graduate students?

In a tenure-track market where the odds of getting a job are never in your favor, graduate students are waking up and demanding more help from their programs.

Why write an application letter so dry that even you wouldn’t want to read it?

It’s not just a written record of your credentials. It’s an argument in favor of you. Draft it with that in mind.

An English department looked to data to rework its graduate-program curriculum, and it paid off for the students.

Perhaps it’s time to teach our doctoral students things they actually need to know for the nonacademic careers some of them want to pursue.

The new president of the Association of University Presses talks about the challenges facing academic publishing and what they mean for first-time authors.

One university’s successful effort to recruit and retain more minority students in Ph.D. programs begins at the undergraduate level.

An interactive database created by the American Historical Association offers a comprehensive look at the professional paths of 10 years of history Ph.D.s.

A new seminar at Michigan helped doctoral students explore nonfaculty jobs and helped a professor learn how to teach about them.

A new one-volume history of the American academy should be a must-read for every graduate student — and plenty of more-established Ph.D.s, too.

And what the decision to leave the professoriate behind says about graduate education.

Sometimes the only way forward is to start over again.

And how to supervise the faculty member writing it.

We need to teach students that leaving graduate school is a decision, not a failing.

We haven’t paid sufficient attention to the jarring transition from graduate course work to thesis writing.

Why graduate students should be allowed to see the letters we write on their behalf.

Predictions and hopes for the future of Ph.D. training.

Part 1 in a series on how to pick the professor who will guide your dissertation.

A new book seeks to help scholars vault themselves out of the ivory tower and into the wider world.

Our career lexicon for graduate students is in need of a makeover.

We should have debated a dual-track tenure system 15 years ago. It’s not too late.

A new study of postdoctoral careers — inside and outside of academe — aims to collect the numbers and the stories.

Graduate schools can’t afford to wait for employers to come to us.

Tech-savvy candidates have an advantage — for now.

Part 2 in a series on how to pick the professor who will guide your dissertation.