Abseiling From the Ivory Tower
Increasing numbers of docs and postdocs follow a career path outside academia; they are not failures but successes in the eyes of employers across universities and businesses. Last year, almost 25,000 PhDs...
Academic Print Books are Dying. What’s the Future?
Donald Barclay, University of California, Merced The print-format scholarly book, a bulwark of academia’s publish-or-perish culture, is an endangered species. The market that has sustained it over the...
Oh Captain, My Therapist
This piece originally appeared on The Judgemental Observer and is reposted with permission from Amanda Anne Klein. If you are a college-level educator, you have most likely experienced the following...
What will you do with a Ph.D. in science?
Most graduate students will not have a choice but to consider “alternative” careers.
Explaining the World Order: An Interview with Global Strategist Parag Khanna
Dr. Parag Khanna shares his thoughts on why academic inquiry should transcend disciplinary bounds, as well as some of his most foundational IR reads.
Academia’s Dirty Little Secret
Editor's Note: Gordon Haber explores a controversial topic in academia today — the use of non-tenured, adjunct faculty. He recently published a novella, "Adjunctivitis", detailing the misadventures of one...
Academic Dishonesty: Cracks in the Ivory Tower? When Academic Methodologies Fail
“Married Couples Live Longer.” “Caffeine Could Impair Women’s Fertility.” “Walnuts Improve Reaction to Stress.” For centuries, academic research has worked to solve real world problems in...
