Becoming a Professor
A Guide to a Career in Higher Education- Authors:
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- Publisher:
- 2015
Summary
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.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2015
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-4758-0915-2
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-4758-0917-6
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 185
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Preface No access
- Chapter One: Higher Education’s Significant Contexts No access Pages 1 - 4
- Chapter Two: Types of Higher Education Institutions No access
- Chapter Three: Types of Teaching Positions No access
- Chapter Four: Profiting from Graduate School No access
- Chapter Five: Search Committees, CVs, Interviews, and Job Talk No access
- Chapter Six: Publishing, Performing, and Products No access
- Chapter Seven: Teaching No access
- Chapter Eight: Service Obligations No access
- Chapter Nine: Ethical and Legal Concerns No access
- Chapter Ten: Professorial Politics No access
- Chapter Eleven: Promotion and Tenure No access
- Chapter Twelve: The Future No access
- References No access Pages 179 - 184
- About the Authors No access Pages 185 - 185





