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Career Advice Carpe Careers

Letting Ourselves Dream About Our Careers

Life is short, so we should pursue a path that allows us to be fully ourselves, writes Lauren Easterling.

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Career Advice Conditionally Accepted

A Growing Movement to Oppose Genocide

We’re building Faculty for Justice in Palestine as a network to support people on campuses, especially the most vulnerable, write Andrew Ross and Sherene Seikaly.

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Career Advice

Disembroiling HOT Moments in the Classroom

Rebecca Petitti, Amanda Irvin and Soulaymane Kachani advise instructors on how to respond when things get heated, offensive or tense.

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Career Advice

Well-Being is Not Just an Individual Issue

Colleges must develop policies and practices that establish well-being and boundary-setting as core institutional values, writes Vicki L. Baker.

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Career Advice

Teach Your Children/Students Well

And also prepare them for careers by helping them translate those experiences into what employers say they need, writes Rachel Toor.

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Career Advice Carpe Careers

The Career Benefits of Volunteer Engagement

You can use such opportunities to network, develop skills outside your comfort zone, try bold things and contribute to society, writes Chris Smith.

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Career Advice

The Why and How of Equity-Minded Mentoring

A process that honors mentors’ and mentees’ social identities can change the culture of exclusionary academic fields, Kristyn Lue and Annie M. Wofford say.

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Career Advice

Academic Failure and Success Redefined 

New career trajectories, including those for scholars interested in leaving a tenure-track position, need to be normalized, legitimized and valued, Sarah W. Dorr writes.