Cathy Davidson argues that education as a whole is deformed when it is only geared to “will it help you get into college.”

A new column at Inside Higher Ed interviews executive-level women in academia.

Even though the job market is terrible, a job that doesn’t fit you is not actually a good idea, even if the way this correspondent framed that point was, rightly, criticized for being elitist. Here’s another take on the same subject, with a little more humility and a little more self-knowledge.

Is academia a bad boyfriend?

Half of women in science wanted to have more children but didn’t because of their careers, and a quarter of men in science agree.

A long-time administrator reflects on the things he wishes he’d known from the beginning. Dean Dan responds from his own experience.

Can you avoid burnout?

Sabbaticals aren’t all cushy freedom – they often bring a temporary paycut. Here’s some advice on planning for it.

Karen at The Professor Is In has advice for your first year on the tenure track.

Lee Skallerup Bessette at Bad Female Academic talks about the need for shameless self-promotion.

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.

After Academe responds to William Pannapacker’s recent essay by suggesting that adjuncts, new PhDs who can’t find tenure-track work, and even graduate students should just walk away, because working for pennies makes us complicit in the problem. Karen of The Professor Is In weighs in as well.

Bad Female Academic continues the discussion of the ways class plays in to “fit” in academia, and Post/Academic discusses her own experience.

The conversation about class has been really wide-ranging; Lee Skallerup Bessette pulls it all together.

Melonie Fullick (aka Aesthetic Vigilante) does a rocking Month in Higher Ed.

Shame is normal as we struggle with writing in academia.

Karen at The Professor Is In describes how she built a CV.

Anastasia Salter recommends starting a tenure box to keep everything you might need to present.

Timothy Burke takes on the market, and then further considers his argument.

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.

Apparently, the AAUP’s guidelines on faculty with physical or mental disabilities hadn’t been updated since the late 1960s. They’re getting right on that.

You can deduct unreimbursed research expenses from your taxes – but only if you’re a professor.

Dr. Crazy describes an early part of her writing process, one that doesn’t look like writing but is integral to it.

Benefits like personal leave are only valuable if people actually believe they can use them when they really need them.

Graduate students are relying more and more on loans.

New book coming out: how to balance motherhood and academia.

Dr. Crazy talks about class in the academy and explicitly brings gender back into the conversation.

Tonight I’m holding a free teleclass on 3 barriers to overcome in the post-academic job search. Join us!