It is a truth universally acknowledged that academics in want of a job operate in a very different labor market from most of the private sector. For example, academics are likely to be more familiar ...

This is often one of the first questions I ask graduate students and postdocs that I work with at Penn before discussing my feedback on their résumé – especially if they are Ph.D. students and ...

It’s official: The former law professor Barack H. Obama is back on the job market. It can be tough out there for an academic who’s been out of the game for so long, and Mr. Obama probably hasn’t ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Brat, who chairs the economics and business department at Virginia’s Randolph-Macon ...