So You Want to Be a Professor?: A Handbook for Graduate Students / Edition 1

by P . Aarne Vesilind

Overview

Maybe you'd like to combine the two loves of your life, teaching and scholarship, and perhaps build a satisfying and profitable academic career, but you're not sure if this is really what you want or how to go about it. Or maybe you've made up your mind but need some good advice on how to succeed. If so, this book is written for you. So You Want To Be a Professor begins with a discussion of jobs in academia and how to find them. Chapters cover a wide range of political skills for future academic success, including lecturing, organizing a course, meeting your first class, testing, maintaining a research program, and writing for publication. No other book provides such a practical overview of essential career-building skills. Even junior faculty will benefit from the advice in this engaging, comprehensive book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761918974
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	11/30/1999
Series:	Continuing Education Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.44(d)

Table of Contents

Employment Opportunities in Academia
Getting an Academic Job
Learning to Teach
Organizing a Course
Presenting a Course
Meeting Your First Class
Testing and Evaluation
Advising and Mentoring
Research and Scholarship
Publishing
Getting Tenure
Academic Integrity
Getting Fired
The Academic Career