Engaging in professional development is important for all graduate students as they move through their degree. The information and resources below are meant to provide you with means for professional development with which you may wish to engage. Improving upon certain skills can be a great way to stay competitive in the job market regardless of your career path.

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Networking
Conferences
Social Media

Further Reading

On Contemporary Issues in Higher Education

• Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011)
• College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be by Andrew Delbanco (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012)
• The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities by Frank Donoghue (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008)
• Higher Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids—and What We Can Do About It by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus (New York: Times Books, 2010)

On Academic Career Development

• “How to Get a(n academic) Job: Career Development” by Josephine Crawley Quinn on her blog
• So What Are You Going to Do with That?: Finding Careers Outside Academia by Susan Basalla and Maggie Debelius (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007)
• From Student to Scholar: A Candid Guide to Becoming a Professor by Steven M. Cahn (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008)
• The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School through Tenure by John A. Goldsmith, John Komlos, and Penny Schine Gold (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001)
• Surviving Your Academic Job Hunt: Advice for Humanities PhDs by Kathryn Hume (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
• Graduate Study for the Twenty-First Century: How to Build an Academic Career in the Humanities by Gregory Colon Semanza (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
• The Academic Job Search Handbook by Julie Vick, Jennifer S. Furlong, Rosanne Lurie, and Mary Morris Heiberger (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)