Career Advice
Knowing how to highlight your relevancy in a range of disciplines can radically increase your job opportunities in the academic market
Two career development specialists offer their best advice on how to write an effective cover letter
As with all professions, academe presents different issues at different stages – especially mid-career
How best to highlight your publishing accomplishments – even when the list is brief
A learning technology coordinator reveals how to keep students engaged and encourage them to participate in the cyber classroom
A first-person account of lessons learned as a TA
Expert advice on how to work toward your best TA’ship
From English PhD to environmentalist.
A path to progress, or a parliament of chores?
Expert advice on how to work toward your best TA’ship
From dramaturge to life coach
This is a useful book for anyone in the academic world and more so for those in the early stages of a scholarly career. Now expanded and updated for its third edition, The Academic’s Handbook began as a colloquium at Duke University some 20 years ago. The editors of the current edition are A. Leigh […]
Marketing your transferable skills for employment beyond academia
For junior professors, finding a mentor means not being afraid to ask
Expert advice on how to work toward your best TA’ship
All about the granting program that most scholarly presses can’t publish your book without
Two authors of a recent Canadian volume on scholarly writing offer solid advice on building a solid academic bibliography
From would-be linguist to TV producer
Help in a hurry for your grant proposals
How to document your pedagogical profile