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'There’s Some Kind of Mistake'
After Learning Her TA Would Be Paid More Than She Was, This Lecturer Quit
Labor activism has graduate teaching assistants out-earning some faculty members in the University of California system. -
Advice
Will Graduate-Student Unions Change Everything?
How collective bargaining is already starting to alter the landscape of doctoral education. -
Advice
A New Player Enters the Graduate-School Game
How a national project aims to give master’s and doctoral students the same level of attention as first-year undergraduates. -
Tech Interference
Graduate Students Went on Strike. Then a Dean Suggested That Professors Use AI to Keep Classes Going.
Boston University clarified that no one believes artificial intelligence can replace graduate-student teaching assistants. -
Advice
On the Dissertation: You Don’t Have to Write It in Order
Graduate students often write in a linear style and end up stalled. Here are some different approaches. -
Advice
Who’s Afraid of Elaine Showalter Now?
A quarter century ago, an MLA leader was pilloried for advocating “career diversity” for English Ph.D.s. The discipline is finally catching up. -
Workplace Ethics
Does This Harvard Economist Practice What He Preaches?
Raj Chetty’s research skewers elitist systems. But some former employees say his lab is part of the problem. -
Advice
How to Jump-Start Your Industry Job Search
Winter semester is an ideal time to prepare your résumé and cover letters for nonacademic positions. -
The Review | Opinion
This Is a Golden Age of Academic Unionization
Academe’s most precarious workers are delivering a better future for us all. -
Confronting Harassment
Ways to Help Vulnerable Foreign Students Know Their Title IX Rights
A $20-million lawsuit that was filed against the Nevada System of Higher Education highlights foreign students’ vulnerability to sexual abuse.