How to prepare for and protect your career against layoffs (opinion)
The long-feared enrollment cliff—the result of a projected decrease in high school graduates—is no longer a distant threat. It’s here. Across the United States, colleges and universities are grappling with declining student numbers, leading to program closures and escalating layoffs. For many faculty and staff members, such employment changes come without warning and lack transparency, […]
How to Navigate Each Newer, Bigger Box on Your Career Path
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When I was a child, I wanted to be a social studies teacher. Living on a farm, the boundary walls of my knowledge made up a very small box. I knew cows were hard work and social studies was my favorite subject, so I went with my […]
How to better justify intercollegiate athletics (opinion)
colematt/iStock/Getty Images Plus How can university and college presidents, and the boards that hire them, better justify the expenditures on intercollegiate athletics, particularly at the Division I level, when They are extracurricular activities that have no relation to an academic degree? They make completing certain degrees, such as engineering or biochemistry, virtually impossible due to conflicts […]
How To Stand Out At Work Without Stepping On Toes
. Pexels Jessica Chen grew up in a “Quiet Culture” household where deference, humility, harmony, and single-minded hard work were both expected and praised. Worthy as those traits are, they seemed incompatible with much of what she found in the “Loud Culture” of today’s workplace. The result was that early in her career she felt […]
How To Find Your Place Of Most Potential For Career Sucess
A successful businesswoman in her Place of Most Potential For Career Success getty You have probably heard the analogy about a bottle of water priced differently in various settings. At a vending machine, a bottle of water is $1; at a nice restaurant, it is $4; and if you go to a professional sporting event, […]
Change your job search strategy to deal with age bias; how to search jobs aligned with age
No Country for Old Men—the title of this Coen Brothers’ Hollywood thriller, could well have been the headline for the current job market, both in India and abroad, where age and experience hang like millstones around the necks of job seekers. Employers and hiring managers alike seem to be dealing with reduced budgets and a […]
How To Discover, Define, And Deliver On Your Personal Brand
Photo credit getty Discovering, defining, and delivering on your personal brand is an essential journey towards increasing both your professional success and the satisfaction you derive from your work. It is a process that involves self-discovery, storytelling, and strategy. Your personal brand is your career’s most valuable asset, and cultivating it effectively through a structured […]
How to think about teaching writing in a GenAI world
The other day I had a friend, someone who knows my work, and who even works in education-adjacent spaces ask, “Have you written anything about that ChatGPT stuff?” Have I? It seems like that’s all I’ve been writing about, to the point where I purposefully go looking for any other topic for this space these […]
How to Combat an “Always On” Work Culture
Imagine a world where your boss could be fined for contacting you after hours. California is considering a law to make this a reality. The “right to disconnect” movement is gaining traction globally, with Australia joining France, Italy, Slovakia, Luxembourg, Portugal and the Canadian province of Ontario in passing legislation to empower employees to switch off outside of […]
Presidents grapple with how to respond to student protesters
When Michigan State University students established an encampment to call for divestment from Israel over civilian casualties in Gaza, President Kevin Guskiewicz visited the site to speak with student activists about their concerns. In response to similar protests, presidents at Emory University, University of Texas at Austin, and elsewhere sent in the police, who arrested […]