Are You A Good Protégé?

Failing to seek and keep a good relationship with a mentor during the tenure-track years is a serious mistake.

Leaving Academe for the Food Business

How did the lessons of graduate school help an English Ph.D. when he decided to join, and expand, his family's food-distribution business?

On the Library Market

A Ph.D. who returned to graduate school after working in publishing runs the interview gantlet at academic libraries.

Not Your Father's Ph.D.

A devoted blogger confronts his fear that his virtual life is damaging his career prospects in academe.

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