Full Description
"If you want to achieve tenure, you should know a bit more about what it means and why it exists, and its benefits. All too often, even faculty don't understand why tenure is important.""
Thus begins the Preface of Candid Advice for New Faculty Members, the newest and most comprehensive "how to" guide for graduate students, post-docs, and junior faculty across a variety of academic disciplines. Drawing upon her own extensive experiences and that of many colleagues, Marybeth Gasman provides you with an incredibly valuable tool for attaining tenure and for the things that you should do to advance your academic career. She provides practical (and sometimes humorous) advice about a range of topics, including:
negotiating job offers
planning a research agenda
improving your teaching skills
managing service
advising students
applying for research grants
achieving life/work balance
managing academic politics
In addition to this valuable career advice, Gasman provides a peek behind the academy's curtain by painting a vivid picture of the inner workings of the academy and all of its players. Candid Advice for New Faculty Members is required reading for every newly-minted faculty member. The wisdom provided in this volume will prove to be invaluable to your future career.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Reflections on My Journey to the Professoriate
1. You Got the Offer, Now What?
2. How to Plan a Research Agenda and Publish
3. How to Teach at Your Best
4. How Do I Manage Service?
5. Advising for Success
6. Do I Have to Apply for Grants?
7. Surviving Faculty Politics
8. How Do I Achieve Work/Life Balance?
9. And the Rest of the Job...
Concluding Thoughts
Epilogue: What if I'm a Woman and/or a Person of Color? Three Interviews
Appendix A: Peer-Reviewed Journal Matrix
Appendix B: Books on Writing
Appendix C: Establishing a Center or Institute
Appendix D: Sample Tenure Essay
Appendix E: Tips for Online Teaching
Appendix F: Suggested Outline for CV
Appendix G: Select Funders for Academic Research
Appendix H: Select List of Fellowships
Appendix I: Consulting and Public Speaking Log
About the Author
About the Illustrator
Index
NOTE: Table of contents subject to change up until publication date.
