Resources for Future Faculty
The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School Through Tenure, by John A. Goldsmith, John Komlos, Penny Schine Gold (University of Chicago Press, 2001), is written as a dialog between three faculty colleagues from different disciplines comparing and contrasting their career experiences and advice.
On the Market: Strategies for a Successful Academic Job Search, by Sandra Barnes (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007), presents both big-picture strategic thinking and nuts-and-bolts suggestions to help junior scholars obtain satisfying academic employment in today's highly competitive market. Barnes addresses the key topics that job candidates face as they seek academic positions.
The Academic's Handbook, edited by A. Leigh Deneef, Craufurd D. Goodwin, and Ellen Stern McCrate (Duke University Press, 1995), features essays on academic employment as well as the various roles faculty members fill, including teaching and advising and funding and publishing academic research. Aspiring Academics: A Resource Book for Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty, Edited by Michael Solem, Kenneth Foote, and Janice Monk (Prentice Hall, 2008) is a set of essays is designed to help graduate students and early career faculty start their careers in geography and related social and environmental sciences by providing accessible, forward-looking advice on topics that often cause the most stress in the first years of a college or university appointment. Tomorrow's Professor: Preparing for Careers in Science and Engineering by Richard M. Reis (Wiley-IEEE Press, 1997), offers career advice and faculty vignettes of interest to graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and junior faculty in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) disciplines. Also, disciplinary journals often publish articles on searching for and obtaining faculty positions in particular disciplines. While the examples below may not be directly relevant to your discipline, they will provide you with examples of the kind of advice and information to seek out in your own discipline. Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences (http://serc.carleton.edu/ NAGTWorkshops/careerprep/index.html), from On the Cutting Edge: Professional Development for Geosciences Faculty (http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/ index.html). While these resources are targeted specifically at future faculty in the geosciences, many of them are applicable to future faculty in variety of disciplines (the sciences in particular).
"Tips for the Job Search: Applying for Academic and Postdoctoral Positions," by Heather Lewis and John Caughman, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, October 2006, http://www.ams.org/notices/200609/fea-lewis.pdf
"What Search Committees Want," by Walter Broughton and William Conlogue, Profession 2001, Modern Language Association, 2001, http://www.mla.org/resources/ jil/jil_jobseekers/jil_jobseekers_pro "Preparing Engineering Faculty as Educators" by Susan A. Ambrose and Marie Norman "Preparing engineering faculty of the future: the NSF Engineering Education Scholars Workshop," by S.A. Ambrose & C.I. Davidson, Frontiers in Education, Annual, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 1324-1326vol.3, Frontiers in Education Conference, 1997. 27th Annual Conference. Teaching and Learning in an Era of Change. Proceedings., 1997, http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/fie.1997.632665 “Learning and Teaching Ethics in Engineering: Preparing Engineering Faculty to Teach Ethics,” by Thomas Litzinger, John Christman, Andy Lau, Nancy Tuana, and John Wise, Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2003, http://www.cede.psu.edu/users/alau/ASEE2003-1416_Final_Learning&TeachingEthics.pdf You'll also find news and advice on careers in higher education at the Chronicle of Higher Education's Careers web site (http://chronicle.com/jobs/). The CV Doctor (http://chronicle.com/jobs/tools/cvdoctor/2006/) is a particularly useful feature on this website, evaluating sample CV's submitted by readers. This year's collection includes three faculty CV's: one for a Ph.D. in the humanities, one in the physical sciences, and one in a field with significant online teaching. The CV of a department head looking to move up into academic administration is also included. Additional Book Titles
Boice, Robert. Advice for New Faculty Members . Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000.
Jarvis, Donald K. Junior Faculty Development: A Handbook . NY: Modern Language Association, 1991.
Menges, Robert J. Faculty in New Jobs : A Guide to Settling In, Becoming Established, and Building Institutional Support . San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999.
Moody, J. Demystifying the Profession: Helping Junior Faculty Succeed. West Haven, CT: University of New Haven Press, 1997. |