Career Advice
Volunteer work can contribute to your graduate research and strengthen your CV.
Tips for building your academic profile.
By simply switching on his home computer and picking up the phone, Tom Erickson is already at the office. Could you work this way?
Improve your writing skills and beef up your CV by submitting to a more mainstream media outlet.
A new website opens the door to some of the lesser-known scholarships offered by the Canadian government.
Secrecy, exclusion and collusion on academic committees.
Whose job is it?
Resources to get you started
An interview with Brian Campbell, dean of graduate studies at chair of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.
An interview with Marianne Stanford, chair of the Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars
An interview with Sunny Marche, associate dean of graduate studies at Dalhousie University
Once considered little more than an interesting project for particularly motivated instructors, teaching dossiers have over the last half-decade graduated to the academic mainstream
Two-day program is geared for postsecondary administrators at Canadian universities and colleges
Understanding and engaging reviewers is key to winning the confidence of editorial boards
How should a freshly minted graduate behave when they are hired for their first professional job out of university?
An interview with Janice Deakin, the associate vice-principal and dean of graduate studies and research at Queen’s University
A pair of profs seasoned in service learning offer their thoughts
An interview with Chet Jablonski, Assistant provost, research and graduate studies at Zayed University in Dubai
You’ve just been given the chance to teach your first academic course. It was not entirely expected, and you have less time than you would like to prepare. What do you do? The first steps are to stay calm and be realistic. Your first teaching experience will not be your best, your course is unlikely […]
Real-time feedback from students – when used to effect – can energize your classroom