- AcademicKeys.com offers universities a venue to efficiently recruit for higher-level faculty and administrative positions in the engineering fields.
- American Association of University Professors (AAUP) advances academic freedom and shared governance, defines professional values and standards for higher education.
- Arts and Letters Daily is a service of the Chronicle of Higher Education.
- Bar-Or, Yuval D. Is a Ph.D. for Me? Life Inside the Ivory Tower: A Cautionary Guide for Aspiring Doctoral Students. Springfield, NJ: TLB Publishing, May 2009.
- Bianco, Anthony. “The Dangerous Wealth of the Ivy League,” Businessweek, McGraw-Hill Companies, December 10, 2007.
- Association for Support of Graduate Students
- Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB) is devoted to the promotion and improvement of higher education in business administration and management.
- The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching summarizes its mission as ""to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher and the cause of higher education."
- The Chronicle of Higher Education is a source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.
- Debelius, Maggie, and Basalla, Susan Elizabeth. So What Are You Going to Do With That?: A Guide for M.A.'s and Ph.D's Seeking Careers Outside the Academy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.
- The Delta Project’s mission is to help improve college affordability by controlling costs and improving productivity.
- Edge Foundation, Inc. promotes inquiry into and discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues, as well as working for the intellectual and social achievement of society.
- Education Update deals with issues, people and events in education from pre-school to graduate school.
- Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC)
- Improbable Research strives to make people laugh, and then make them think. It administers the Ig Nobel Prizes, to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative, and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology.
- Inside Higher Ed
- Institute of Medicine
- Life Essentials offers life and dissertation coaching services.
- The National Academies provide science, technology and health policy advice under a congressional charter.
- National Academy of Engineering
- National Academy of Sciences
- The National Association of Graduate and Professional Students
- The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education. It is located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences.
- National Center for Higher Education Management Systems’ mission is to improve strategic decision making in higher education for states and institutions in the United States and abroad.
- National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education promotes public policies that enhance Americans' opportunities to pursue and achieve high-quality education and training beyond high school.
- National Education Association
- National Opinion Research Center
- The National Research Council
- Newhouse, Margret. Outside the Ivory Tower: A Guide for Academics Considering Alternative Careers. Boston: Harvard University Office of Careers, 1993.
- PhinisheD is a discussion and support group for people trying to finish their dissertations.
- Phd.org provides PhD student resources and program rankings.
- The PhD Project’s mission is to increase the diversity of corporate America by increasing the diversity of business school faculty.
- PhDs.org provides information to science, math, and engineering students and a voice for early career scientists.
- PREP is the Michigan State University Graduate School career and professional development model, designed to help plan for a successful doctoral experience and a smooth transition into a future role in academia, government, industry, corporations, or agencies.
- RateMyProfessors.com provides a listing of collegiate professor ratings.
- Re-envisioning the Ph.D. Project is funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts which posed the challenging question: “How can we re-envision the Ph.D. to meet the needs of the society of the 21st Century?”
- Review of Higher Education provides a forum for discussion of varied issues affecting higher education. The journal advances the study of college- and university-related topics through peer reviewed articles, essays, reviews and research findings.
- The Scholars at Risk Network (SAR) promotes academic freedom and defends the human rights of scholars and their communities worldwide.
- Slashdot provides “News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters”.
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