The Road to Tenure: Interviews, Rejections, and Other Humorous Experiences by Furtak, Erin Marie

The Road to Tenure: Interviews, Rejections, and Other Humorous Experiences (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781475807981)

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The Road to Tenure: Interviews, Rejections, and Other Humorous Experiences by Furtak, Erin Marie

The Road to Tenure: Interviews, Rejections, and Other Humorous Experiences

$35.95
The Road to Tenure: Interviews, Rejections, and Other Humorous Experiences by Furtak, Erin Marie

The Road to Tenure: Interviews, Rejections, and Other Humorous Experiences

$35.95
Format: Paperback
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The Road to Tenure offers humorous recollections of the messiness and confusion that fill the days of a pre-tenure academic--from graduate school through the postdoc and into the assistant professor days. The book's three sections roughly map onto the chronology of academic life, beginning with graduate school and the job search experience; followed by teaching, research, and service; and finally the challenges of family and academic identity.

The book is not a how-to, nor does it emphasize "lessons learned" on the way to tenure. Instead, the collection earnestly, and with good humor, captures a significant and meaningful slice of the experience of pursuing academia in contemporary colleges and universities. For the doctoral student or newly hired faculty member, these essays will provide some comfort with their implicit suggestion that, while it's certainly hard work, you are not alone.

Author: Erin Marie Furtak
ISBN-10: 1475807988
ISBN-13: 9781475807981
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 04/02/2014
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.12w x 0.44d
By Erin Marie Furtak
By Erin Marie Furtak
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Erin Marie Furtak is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She holds degrees in Biology (B.A., University of Colorado), Education (M.A., University of Denver), and Curriculum and Teacher Education (Ph.D., Stanford University). She currently studies reforms in middle and high school science teaching, exploring different ways that teachers can be supported to improve their teaching practice and how this relates to student learning. She lives in Golden, Colorado, with her husband and two young children, and spends a fair amount of her free time trying to have a sense of humor about her profession.

Ian Parker Renga is a doctoral candidate in the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He earned a B.S. in biology and B.A. in fine art from Indiana University (2001) and a Masters degree in education from Harvard University (2005). Before returning to graduate school to study teaching and teacher education, he was a paraeducator and autism specialist in Bellingham, Washington and a middle school science and math teacher in Blacksburg, Virginia. He and his wife, Katie, and their dog, Tumble, live in Lafayette, Colorado.

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