Joshua Schimel

Your Future on the Faculty: How to Survive and Thrive in Academia

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Produktbeschreibung

There is much more to being a college professor than just teaching and doing research. Most new faculty struggle because they have to figure out how to juggle a complex mix of activities that are dominated by the human and institutional structures they live within--from departments up to international professional communities. Your Future as a Faculty Member: How to Survive and Thrive in Academia discusses these human elements that are core to surviving and thriving as a faculty member. It guides readers through lessons in building successful and supportive relationships with communities of students, campus colleagues, professional peers, and university administrative and support staff.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197608821
• ISBN-10: 0197608825
• Artikelnr.: 66165443

Autorenporträt

Joshua Schimel received his Ph.D. in soil science from University of California, Berkeley, and became an assistant professor at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, before moving to the University of California, Santa Barbara. He studies how soil processes regulate ecosystem function, particularly in the Arctic and in dry California systems. He has served in many roles including Chair of the Environmental Studies Program, Chair of the Univerisity of California Systemwide Council on Planning and Budget, and as Associate Dean of Sciences. He is the author of Writing Science: How to Write Papers That Get Cited and Proposals That Get Funded (OUP, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Title Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Nature of Academe
Section 1 Intro: Your Individual Path as an Academic
1 Postdoc: A Postdoc's Job Is to Get a Job
2 Assistant Professor: Making It to Tenure
3 Success: Tenure
4 Thriving in Academe When You Are Not a White, Heterosexual Man
5 Non-tenure Track Teaching Faculty
Section 2 Intro: University Operations
6 University Administrative Systems
7 Working with the Staff
Section 3 Intro: The Next Generation
8 Mentoring 1: Vision and Philosophy
9 Mentoring 2: Specific Challenges
10 Teaching: Being Good While Surviving
Section 4 Intro: Professional Communities
11 Publishing Ecosystems
12 Who Put the Peer in Peer Review--Being Part of the System
13 Professional Communities
14 Conclusion: Thriving in Academe
Appendix 1: Useful Resources
Appendix 2: Mottoes for Memorable Mentoring
Literature Cited