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AdviceWhy You Shouldn’t Quit Your New Doctoral Program (Yet)
Too many students make a rash decision to leave graduate study during their first semester. -
Collateral damage
When Your Professor Disappears and No One Will Tell You Why
For three UCLA doctoral students, the punishment imposed on their mentor set them back, too. -
Bargaining Boost
‘Extraordinary and Historic’: Student-Worker Unionization Explodes While Faculty Action Stalls
A new report quantifies the sharp growth in collective action by student workers since 2020. -
Advice
We’re Not Doing Enough for Grad Students at Conferences
Networking won’t save us, but we should endeavor to clear pathways instead of pulling up ladders or staying in our bubbles. -
Advice
Artificial Intelligence: A Graduate-Student User’s Guide
AI can play a positive role in a doctoral student’s research and writing — if we let it. -
Advice
How to Move Past Post-Dissertation Depression
Some people experience a mourning period after earning their doctorates. What to expect and how to cope. -
Advice
4 Tips to Better Position Your Ph.D.s for a Nonacademic Job Search
Faculty advisers need to be having frank conversations, early on, with doctoral students about their Plan B. -
Advice
How to Write a Persuasive Cover Letter
Six factors to consider as you begin drafting your application-letter template for the fall faculty-job market. -
Academic Integrity
Michigan’s Striking Graduate Students Ask: Where Did These Grades Come From?
As the grading deadline loomed, grad-student instructors allege the university pressured faculty to submit falsified grades. Now the university’s accreditor is investigating. -
Graduate Studies
Here’s the Full Story of the Panda Express Postdoc
It’s not so different from a “Richie Rockefeller IV Postdoc” after all.
