Are new graduate programs a good idea? Lee Skallerup Bessette asks and answers.

Penelope Trunk explains why grad degrees are a bad idea.

The scholarship of teaching isn’t being given a lot of credit, especially in promotion and tenure cases.

Post-docs are becoming more usual in the humanities.

Two career guides explain how to make it through the first-round interview.

Leonard Cassuto demystifies the dissertation proposal.

The economy means that even established professors are stuck where they are.

The job market for geographers has taken a turn for the positive.

Should you use a dossier service in your job search? As in everything else in academia, it depends.

Do you know what a given interview question is trying to get at? You should.

After Academe talks about how to quit adjuncting.

Meanness is not the same as being critical.

Overseas opportunities exist for American academics, but there are some significant risks, including challenges for families.

Graduate enrollments are down for the first time in forever, but it’s unclear what that means.

The National Science Foundation responds to research that documents science culture’s hostility to family building (especially for women), with new policies designed to make it easier to do science and have a family.

Lennard J. Davis calls out academia for neither including disability within categories of diversity nor being able to talk about it.

Just because it’s illegal doesn’t mean you won’t get asked that question in an interview. Here’s how to handle the inappropriate query.

Struggling with academia? I offer one-on-one coaching by phone and by email to help people articulate and work through where they’re stuck.

Student loans have grown 511% since 1999.

Professors at Central Michigan University have called a strike.

Madeline Li continues the story of what happened after she was denied tenure.

The job market in Sociology is starting to recover.

ProfHacker has a great post about looking at how well your routines are serving you.

Another Academic Bites the Dust muses on the benefits of quitting.

If you’re doing the tenure-track, don’t put your dissertation up online.

There are lots of ways to get the next job.

Struggling with academia? I offer one-on-one coaching by phone and by email to help people articulate and work through where they’re stuck.

Academia teaches us to be critical. But that’s not the way to get a job.

Speculative Diction continues the conversation about self-promotion. Conclusion? Do it!

In some ways, graduate school is actually an oasis, one you’ll be sad to leave. (In other ways, of course, you’ll be thrilled!) Best line: “Grad school is also your last chance to be an eccentric nerd, hiding in your apartment, eschewing haircuts, writing in 20-hour binges.”

Build relationships with all kinds of people before you need them.

James D. Miller argues that tenure isn’t going to protect people from a wholesale collapse of higher ed.

Karen at The Professor Is In explains how to work a national conference.

Rachel Connolly, one half of the new book The Mommy Track, guest-posts on The Professor Is In about how to achieve work/life balance.

Lee Skallerup Bessette explains why she’s still in academia.

Here’s some good – and specific! – advice on writing the academic job letter.

Struggling with academia? I offer one-on-one coaching by phone and by email to help people articulate and work through where they’re stuck.