How faculty can reframe office hours to ensure a transformative effect on students, faculty, and the culture of academia more broadly.
Mentorship Resources
Fostering Intellectual Community at Your Academic Workplace
Learn how to foster intellectual community in academic workplaces using reading and writing groups, engaging mentorship, and other strategies.
Academic Politics for New and Contingent Faculty
Help navigating academic politics for new and contingent faculty, including finding allies, trusting colleagues, and knowing when to stay out of it.
Imagine Otherwise: Gayatri Gopinath on Queer Diasporic Aesthetics
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Gayatri Gopinath about queering visual culture, diasporic aesthetics, and mentoring queers of color.
Tenure Review is Like Accounting, or Things I Wish I Had Known When I Started the Tenure Track
Prepping your materials for tenure review is time consuming and stressful. But it is much easier if you keep things organized as you go. Here’s how.
How to Ask for a Letter of Recommendation
How to ask for a letter of recommendation from a professor or employer: what to include, how far in advance to ask, and how to follow up.
Deciding Whether or Not to Finish Your PhD
Learn how to actively choose whether to stay and finish your PhD or embark on your next adventure—and what to do once you’ve made your choice.
Imagine Otherwise: Sara Tatyana Bernstein on Critical Public Scholarship
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Sara Tatyana Bernstein about public engagement and interdisciplinary careers beyond the academy.
Mentoring Students Pursuing Non-Academic Careers
Mentoring students pursuing non-academic careers is both possible and vital even if you don’t have any experience beyond the academy yourself. Here’s how to get them what they need.
Finding Non-Academic Mentors Regardless of Your Career Path
Non-academic mentors bring a wealth of career expertise and life advice. Here’s how to build and nurture those relationships regardless of your career path.
Building Your Professional Network and Community
How to build and nurture a professional network and community of folks from diverse career paths to help you over the course of your career.
Grad School Mentorship: Julia Jordan-Zachery, PhD
Julia Jordan-Zachery shares how she helps mentees identify what they really need, find their truths, and stay true to who they are.