How do you help PhD students who want to pursue a non-academic career after graduation? Some programs or departments have the expectation that their graduates will choose careers in diverse fields like industry, healthcare, government, the non-...

If someone were to ask you today about your core values, would you be able to articulate them out loud? Have you ever spent the time to think about your values, especially as they relate to your professional work?When I asked these quest...

How do you want to show up as a scholar right now? For those of you who are based in the United States, this is a question that you are already facing now or will in the near future.No matter which way you turn, you are likely to be impa...

Are you new to caring for an aging parent or parents? If so, I want you to let you know that I’m thinking of you and your loved one on this challenging journey.I started my own caregiving journey in quite an unexpected way, after my fath...

How many of you are currently providing some form of care for your aging parents while also serving in your faculty position? And how many of you are also raising your own children at the same time? How are you holding up right now?In th...

Many of us who are faculty who are in our 40s and 50s are part of what is called the “sandwich” generation. This means that some of us are providing care for both our aging parents as well as children while also trying to advance on the tenure ...

In this 32nd episode, I share some information with you about my journey into coaching and Rise with Clarity, which is a coaching and consulting business for women of color faculty in higher educati...

In this encore broadcast, I discuss the important tenure self-statement document. Find the full written transcript at RisewithClarity.com/6 or RisewithCl...

In this 30th episode of the Rise with Clarity Podcast, I’d like to talk about assessing your bandwidth in these trying times. This can be a helpful tool for those of you who still need to show up and manage the remainder of the academic semeste...

Given the ubiquity of recommendation letters in graduate school admissions processes, fellowship applications, job searches, and promotion cases—particularly in North America, it’s pretty wild that there isn’t more attention paid to this genre ...

It’s now been a little over one year since I’ve left my tenured faculty position and launched Rise with Clarity, my coaching and consulting business for women of color faculty. In this 28th episode of the Rise with Clarity Podcast, I wanted to ...

As you probably already know, grant writing usually involves a significant investment of time and labor. And after a long period of waiting to hear from the funding agency, this process may or may not yield a positive result for you.But ...

For many of you, you’ve likely made it through your first week or two of classes and you’re slowly starting to get back into the rhythm of teaching, research, and writing. But if this is your very first time on the tenure track, all of these ne...

This episode reflects on the narrow set of expectations that are often cast upon academics in higher ed. In North American institutions of higher ed, there are prescribed milestones set up for us, like landing a tenure track position and achiev...

Is this fall going to be your first semester teaching as a professor on the tenure track? If so, congratulations on your new position and this big transition to the professoriate.Conceptualizing and developing a course syllabus may be a ...

For today’s episode, I want to open up a discussion on some of the unique challenges that foreign-born faculty, in particular women faculty, face in universities and colleges in the United States. I come from a place of seeing and k...

Are you in a toxic higher ed work environment?Should you stay or should you leave? There’s no easy answer to these questions…especially if you have invested a lot of time and energy in landing a tenure track position in today...

It’s one thing to identify and acknowledge that you are in a toxic higher ed workplace, and another thing to figure out what you’re going to do about it. What are your next steps?In this 21st episode of the

How do you respond to your various deadlines and projects in higher education? In my case, I wasn’t very skilled at managing my deadlines at the beginning of my academic career. Over the years, I’ve had to learn how to cultivate time management...

If someone were to ask you today about your core values, would you be able to articulate them out loud? Have you ever spent the time to think about your values, especially as they relate to your professional work?When I asked these quest...

Are you currently in a toxic work environment in higher education? What are the telltale signs?Sometimes, you may not want to pay attention to certain red flags, even if you know deep down inside, things seem “off” in your department or ...

Do you find yourself looking forward to the summer but you’re also concerned about having the bandwidth to get your research and writing done in the next 3-4 months? In this 17th Rise with Clarity Podcast episode, I’m going to share some observ...

Dr. Katherine Lee offers some brief reflections since she launched Rise with Clarity (her business and podcast) seven months ago. This is also an encore broadcast of the first and most downloaded epi...

Do you have your own stories to share of when you were mistaken for a graduate student or an undergraduate on campus? Or were you simply told that “you just don’t look like a professor.” In this 15th episode of the Rise with Clarity...

Prior to starting your first job, how many of you were trained to lead an effective graduate seminar? Was your first experience with facilitating a graduate seminar during your first year on the tenure track? And do you remember how that went?<...