The Compleat Academic: A Practical Guide for the Beginning Social Scientist
A new career in academia can be a challenge. Although academia's formal rules are published in faculty handbooks, its implicit rules are difficult to discern. Like the first edition, this updated and expanded volume of The Compleat Academic provides practical advice to help new academics set the best course for a lasting and vibrant career. With humor and insight, leading academics share lessons they learned through their own hard experience. This invaluable guidance will help readers plan,...
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Twenty-nine academics from the U.S. and Canada provide practical guidelines to new academics (of various types—Ph.D. graduate, postdoctoral fellow, or in a faculty position) on the significant aspects of a career in higher education: starting one's career, teaching and mentoring, research and writing, structural aspects of the academic environment, diversity in academia, and long-term career management. The second edition contains 20 chapters, including revised versions of some of the original nine chapters from the first edition, and the addition of many new chapters. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
ContributorsPrefaceCh. 1A Guide to PhD Graduate School: How They Keep Score in the Big Leagues3Ch. 2After Graduate School: A Faculty Position or a Postdoctoral Fellowship17Ch. 3The Hiring Process in Academia31Ch. 4Broadening the Job Search: Jobs Outside of Academia57Ch. 5Tips for Effective Teaching79Ch. 6Mentoring: Managing the Faculty-Graduate Student Relationship117Ch. 7Setting Up Your Lab and Beginning a Program of Research135Ch. 8Obtaining a Research Grant: The Granting Agency's View153Ch. 9Obtaining a Research Grant: The Applicant's View169Ch. 10Writing the Empirical Journal Article185Ch. 11Intellectual Property221Ch. 12Power, Politics, and Survival in Academia245Ch. 13Managing the Department Chair and Navigating the Department Power Structure259Ch. 14Wiring the Ivory Tower: The Interface of Technology and the Academy277Ch. 15The Dialectics of Race: Academic Perils and Promises295Ch. 16Women in Academia311Ch. 17Clinical Psychologists in Academia329Ch. 18Varieties of College and University Experiences345Ch. 19The Academic Marathon: Controlling One's Career363Ch. 20Managing Your Career: The Long View393Index409About the Editors421
