Surviving Your First Five Years As A Faculty Member: Living and Prospering in Academia, Book 2 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780578577357)

Surviving Your First Five Years As A Faculty Member covers the important beginning phase of a faculty member's career in academia. The focus is on getting through promotion and tenure or contract renewal successfully, without losing your mind. Topics covered include tips and techniques for external fund development, research production, effective and efficient teaching, and picking only appropriate service obligations. Additionally, how to develop collaboration and networks, as well as the development of the all important renewal documents are covered in stand-alone chapters. Strategies for appropriate communication with your colleagues that will help your promotion and tenure efforts are covered, as well as a whole chapter on what happens after the promotion/tenure decision. In all, this text is meant to give a new faculty member a toolset that they can use to transit the first five years of their career successfully.

Author: J. Timothy Lightfoot
ISBN-10: 0578577356
ISBN-13: 9780578577357
Publisher: Presyncopal Press
Language: English
Published: 09/11/2019
Pages: 252
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d