A few years ago at a leadership workshop, I gave a talk on “good things about being an academic administrator.” The audience was largely made up of faculty members considering the leadership path.

This guest post was contributed by Jung Jang, a graduate student in the USC Psychology Department's Clinical Science program. I am a pessimist. By that, I mean I am thinking about how this ...

“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.” —G.B. Stern As a psychotherapist who believes in the power of positive ...