Offers career guidance to Ph.D. degree holders, addressing such issues as publishing, interviews, CVs, cultivating references, avoiding career path mistakes, and transitioning to non-academic work.
The book offers invaluable advice to visiting and adjunct instructors ready to seek new opportunities, to scholars caught in "tenure-trap" jobs, to grad students interested in nonacademic work, and to committed academics who want to support ...
Packed with examples and stories from real people who have successfully made this daunting—but potentially rewarding— transition, and written with a deep understanding of both the joys and difficulties of the academic life, this fully ...
As Mark C. Taylor puts it, “Speed Kills,” and the casualties are many: “As acceleration accelerates, individuals, societies, economies, and even the environment approach meltdown” (par. 15). While much has been written on the ...
For an international comparison of academic systems and their evolution, see Burton R. Clark, ed., The Academic Profession: National, Disciplinary, and Institutional Settings (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987). 7.
This book is a guide to thinking about and planning for tenure, promotion, and academic career-planning.
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The book concludes with a tongue-in-cheek appendix on How to Become a Millionaire while an academic.
This new edition includes two new chapters and is revised and updated throughout to reflect how the revolution in electronic communication has transformed the field.
... Lance Glasser, Mark Hopkins, Paul Humke, Rollie Jenison, Donald Kennedy, Ruthann Kibler, Hau Lee, Lew Lefton, Paul Losleben, ... Ron Reis, Rick Vinci, and especially Robert Herrick, the IEEE Education Society Liaison to the Press.
Critiques university professors who, in the interest of their own professional advancement, cultivate PhD candidates to perform research for them and ignore the academic needs of undergraduates