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The Road to Tenure

Interviews, Rejections, and Other Humorous Experiences

von: Erin Marie Furtak, Ian Parker Renga
29,99 €
Verlag:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	02.04.2014
ISBN/EAN:	9781475807998
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	152

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Titelbeschreibung

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.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

This book contains humorous recollections of the messiness and confusion that fill the days of a pre-tenure academic – from graduate school through the post-doc, and into the assistant professor days. The stories recount the experiences of pre-tenure academics in the thick of things and trying – perhaps unsuccessfully – to make sense of it all.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
 
By Erin Marie Furtak and Ian Parker Renga
 

 
Section 1: Startup Costs
 

 
Warning: Scholarship Can Be Hazardous for Your Health
 
By Ian Parker Renga
 

 
Lucy and the Football: My Search for a Job in a Charlie Brown World
 
By Steve Newton
 

 
Chocolate Frosting & The Art of Interviewing
 
By Heather M. Bandeen
 

 
Changing Clothes in the Phone Booth
 
By Jessalynn Strauss
 

 
Section 2: Occupational Dissonance
 

 
Whose class is it anyway?
 
By Julie C. Mitchell
 

 
When Homer Simpson Writes Homer’s Iliad: Preventing Plagiarism while Keeping Your Promotion
 
By Troy Appling
 

 
How Not to Teach a Class
 
By Andrew Shtulman
 

 
Publish, Perish, or Apply for Social Security: Reflections on the Tenure Process
 
By Logan Greene
 

 
The Life of the Mind…In the Company of Others
 
By Amanda Jansen
 

 
Section 3: Professors Are People, Too
 

 
The Village Idiot
 
By Erin Marie Furtak
 

 
Hot Mess Times Three
 
By Hindi Krinsky
 

 
Who’s Pro-creating Now?: Two Sides of Parenting in the Academe
 
By Lara Narcisi and Scott Dimovitz
 

 
How I Got Dismissed from Jury Duty: A Reflection on Philosophy and Public Life
 
By Rick Anthony Furtak
 

 
Acknowledgements

Autorenportrait

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.