So You Want to Be a Professor?
A Handbook for Graduate Students
- P. Aarne Vesilind - Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
January 2000 | 208 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This guide for graduate students shows you how to get an academic job and, more importantly, how to succeed in it. With chapters on teaching, testing, advising, researching and publishing, the book provides everything you need to know to pursue a successful academic career.
Employment Opportunities in Academia
Getting an Academic Job
Learning to Teach
Organizing a Course
Presenting a Course
Meeting Your First Class
Testing and Evaluation
Advising and Mentoring
Research and Scholarship
Publishing
Getting Tenure
Academic Integrity
Getting Fired
The Academic Career