Becoming a professor : a guide to a career in higher education

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Becoming a professor : a guide to a career in higher education

Marie Iding and R. Murray Thomas

Rowman & Littlefield, c2015

  • : pbk
  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-183)

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Description

Becoming a Professor is designed primarily for graduate and undergraduate students and others - instructors, lecturers and new tenure-track professors - contemplating careers as professors in post-secondary education at colleges, institutes, and universities. The book identifies kinds of higher education institutions, and types of teaching positions along with the nature of each position's responsibilities and advantages and disadvantages. It explains how graduate students can promote their future as faculty members while they are still in graduate school and suggests ways to find suitable faculty positions and succeed at the application and interview process. The book also addresses a range of other matters that influence careers in higher education once a candidate is hired in a faculty position - such matters as the tenure and promotion process and how to succeed in other aspects of the professorial role (research, service, teaching), and as well as how to avoid pitfalls (political and ethical aspects) in such positions.

Table of Contents

Preface Chapter 1: Higher Education's Significant Contexts Part I: Preparing to Become a Professor Chapter 2: Types of Higher Education Institutions Chapter 3: Types of Teaching Positions Chapter 4: Profiting from Graduate School Chapter 5: Search Committees, CVs, Interviews, and Job Talks Part II: On-the-Job: Research/Creativity, Teaching, and Service Roles Chapter 6: Publishing, Performing, and Products Chapter 7: Teaching Chapter 8: Service Obligations Part III: Influential Issues Chapter 9: Ethical and Legal Matters Chapter 10: Professorial Politics Chapter 11: Promotion and Tenure Part IV: Postscript Chapter 12: The Future: Careers in Higher Education References Index

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