Advancing in the Faculty

Kate Vacek and Letitia Henville offer tips for academics who've just landed their first tenure-track job about how to advance and succeed.

Susan Shaw offers advice for colleagues working in states where legislators are questioning progressive teaching and academic freedom. 

We’re pulled in many different directions and supposed to be jacks-of-all-trades, writes Anthony Barnhart, but that expectation is unreasonable.

Hanna Tervanotko explores questions about the purpose of a sabbatical today, such as whether it should primarily serve the individual or the institution.

Stephanie Kirk and Christopher Schaberg share nine ways senior faculty can help shift institutional cultures and make leading-edge scholarship more valued.

Steve Baule describes some service options that might be available to new faculty members and provides advice on those they may want to consider.

As administrative scholars become more prominent across campuses, who should be considered capital-F Faculty, Chelsea Brislin asks, and what opportunities should be extended to them?

Leaders in academe hold several keys to correct the well-documented tendency to undervalue women’s work, writes Nina Gray.