There’s not much good to find in a destructive pandemic, but here’s one potentially positive outcome: Covid-19 may bring graduate schools to a long-needed reckoning with the dissertation requirement.

At long last, you’ve finished your dissertation. But, unfortunately, for all the work you’ve put into it, it may only be read by members of your committee, your editor if you needed one and maybe your ...

Here’s a common conversation I find myself having with new faculty members. I ask, “What training and support do you think would be helpful for you as a new faculty member in your department?” The new ...