Marie K. Iding, R. Murray Thomas

Becoming a Professor

A Guide to a Career in Higher Education

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 293g
• ISBN-13: 9781475809169
• ISBN-10: 1475809166
• Artikelnr.: 41761221

Autorenporträt

By Marie K. Iding and R. Murray Thomas

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Chapter 1: Higher Education's Significant Contexts Part I:
Preparing to Become a Professor Chapter 2: Types of Higher Education
Institutions Chapter 3:  Types of Teaching Positions Chapter 4:  Profiting
from Graduate School Chapter 5: Search Committees, CVs, Interviews, and Job
Talks Part II: On-the-Job: Research/Creativity, Teaching, and Service Roles
Chapter 6: Publishing, Performing, and Products Chapter 7: Teaching Chapter
8: Service Obligations Part III: Influential Issues Chapter 9: Ethical and
Legal Matters Chapter 10: Professorial Politics Chapter 11: Promotion and
Tenure Part IV: Postscript Chapter 12: The Future: Careers in Higher
Education References Index