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What They Didn't Teach You in Graduate School : 199 Helpful Hints for Success in Your Academic Career by David E. Drew and Paul Gray (2008, Trade Paperback)

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* 199 tips for getting your PhD and surviving and thriving in your first years of teaching* Irreverent, but serious, guide to what higher education institutions are REALLY like* Illustrated with original cartoons to bring the hints to lifeJust landed your first faculty position? Close to getting your Ph.D., and planning a career in academe? Already in your first job? This insightful guide will help you achieve success. What will academic life be like? How do you discover its tacit rules? Develop the habits and networks needed for success? What issues will you encounter if you're a person of color, or a woman? How is higher education changing? In 199 succinct, and often humorous but seriously practical hints, Paul Gray and David E. Drew share their combined experience of many years as faculty and (recovering) administrators to offer insider advice-the kind that's rarely taught or even talked about in graduate school. For instance, Gray and Drew advise you on what you can do to become known in your field and also to be humble about your Ph.D. They also warn you of the danger points along the Ph.D. path, and the possible stumbling blocks with litigious students. Their hints can cover topics as lofty as quantitative and qualitative methods and as mundane-but still as important-as negotiating campus parking.For easy reference as you climb the academic ladder, the hints are divided into 15 short chapters and 4 appendices covering the stages and responsibilities of faculty life. As the authors state, "It is a good life and it is a lifestyle for which you even get paid." These hints will help you both make a valuable contribution to, and get the most from, academe. And if you are reallypenurious, persuade a family member or friend to buy this book for you.

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Stylus Publishing, LLC
ISBN-10
1579222641
ISBN-13
9781579222642
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Author
David E. Drew, Paul Gray
Publication Name
What They Didn't Teach You in Graduate School : 199 Helpful Hints for Success in Your Academic Career
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
128 Pages

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8in.
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0.4in.
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5.5in.
Item Weight
8.3 Oz

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Lb1778.2.G73 2008
Table of Content
CHAPTER ONE: BASIC CONCEPTS 1) Gray's Theorem of N + 2; 2) 100 Powerful People; 3) What You Can do to Become Known; 4) Drew's Dictum on Publishing Papers; 5) Mentors; 6) Get Known for Something CHAPTER TWO: THE PHD 7) Finish the PhD as Early as Possible; 8) Be Humble about your PhD; 9) PhD Indicates Survivorship; 10) Research Sample of 1; 11) License to Reproduce; 12) A PhD in Hand; 13) Key Danger Point; 14) PhD and Part Time Study; 15) Avoid Watson's syndrome; 16) Celebrate your PhD! CHAPTER THREE: JOB HUNTING 17) Job hunting is a research project; 18) Go where you and your family want to live; 19) Build a reference pool; 20) References are important; 21) Interview your potential boss; 22) If You produced more research than they did; 23) Find the best possible school; 24) Get the PhD before you start the tenure track; 25) Non-university research organizations; 26) Don't take the 1st job at your PhD school; 27) The Assistant Dean strategy; 28) Effect of Supply and demand; 29) Determine the culture; 30) Need for Salary and tenure information; 31) Getting tenure data; 32) The Post Doc option; 33) Change your career every seven years; 34) Ask about retirement system; 35) Coping with parking; 36) Real pay; 37) Get offer in writing; 38) Potential of other employment CHAPTER FOUR: TEACHING AND SERVICE 39) Publication is the only portable wealth; 40) Teaching is becoming more valuable for tenure; 41) Teaching is a learned art; 42) Go to Toastmasters if needed; 43) Meeting classes; 44) Distance learning; 45) Student excuses; 46) Student cheating; 47) Teaching can be dangerous; 48) Don't serve on committees where you are the expert; 49) The ''mode'' of the number of publications CHAPTER FIVE: RESEARCH 50) Make sure you have time for research; 51) Tradeoff between teaching and research; 52) Quantitative and qualitative methods; 53) Learn grantsmanship; 54) Writing the grant proposal; 55) If your grant proposal is declined; 56) Advisory panel in the proposal; 57) Advisory panel after proposal accepted; 58) Get the grant in writing CHAPTER SIX: TENURE 59) Tenure is the prize; 60) Why tenure is a hurdle; 61) The tenure clock is 4.5 years; 62) Tenure committees count refereed publications; 63) If you are tenured, keep it when you change jobs; 64) Tenure can be negotiated on the way in; 65) Tenure is tougher in cross-disciplinary fields; 66) Tenure may not be here forever; 67) Rolling tenure review; 68) Tenured slots may decrease with time CHAPTER SEVEN: ACADEMIC RANK 69) Tenured full professor is freedom; 70) As a full professor you must be known for something; 71) Don't become a Permanent Associate Professor; 72) Pay raises for promotion CHAPTER EIGHT: SALARY 73) Academics are risk averse; 74) Nine-month contracts; 75) Salary variation by field; 76) Administrators make more; 77) Summer pay CHAPTER NINE: LIFE AS AN ACADEMIC 78) Bad deans; 79) Don't choose sides in department politics; 80) Don't take a joint appointment; 81) Secretaries are a scarce resource; 82) Value your TA's and graders; 83) Grading; 84) Research assistants; 85) Physical Plant; 86) Join the faculty club; 87) Office hours; 88) Sabbaticals; 89) Collegiality; 90) Professors are public persons; 91) Freedom of speech; 92) Attend campus lectures; 93) Letters of reference for students; 94) Writing external letters of evaluation; 95) The computer center; 96) E- mail; 97) The down side of e-mail; 98) Don't get on too many e-mail lists; 99) E-mail from your students; 100) Keep up with computer developments; 101) Meetings and digital publication; 102) Interlibrary loan; 103) Digital libraries; 104) Development; 105) Alumni office; 106) Public relations; 107) Faculty senate; 108) A job for full professors; 109) The limited powers of department chairs; 110) The role co
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Hall, Matthew Henry
Copyright Date
2008
Target Audience
Trade
Topic
Professional Development, Higher, Teaching Methods & Materials / General
Lccn
2007-025432
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Education

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