The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career

A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School through Tenure

John A. Goldsmith, John Komlos, Penny Schine Gold (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2001
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-30151-8 (ISBN)

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With a perpetually tight job market, the road to an academic career can be a rocky and frustrating one. There are lots of questions, and this book attempts to provide good, frank answers to them. The three authors, with more than 75 years of combined academic experience, talk openly about what is good and what's not so good about academic life. The book provides information on finding a mentor, avoiding the pitfalls when writing a dissertation and negotiating job listings. The authors also discuss tough issues such as departmental politics, dual-career marriages and sexual harassment. There are also short essays that offer advice on financing graduate education, publishing your first book and leaving academia for the corporate world.

John A. Goldsmith is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor in, and former chair of, the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago. John Komlos is a professor of economics, chair of the Institute of Economic History, and a former chair of the economics department at the University of Munich. Penny Schine Gold is a professor of history at Knox college and past chair of the Women's Studies Program.

Part I Becoming a scholar: deciding on an academic career; entering graduate school; the mentor; writing a dissertation; landing an academic job. Part II The academic profession: the life of the assistant professor; teaching and research; tenure; competition in the university system and outside offers; the personal side of academic life.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.9.2001
Reihe/Serie	Chicago Guides to Academic Life
Sprache	englisch
Maße	17 x 22 mm
Gewicht	510 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Bewerbung / Karriere
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	0-226-30151-6 / 0226301516
ISBN-13	978-0-226-30151-8 / 9780226301518
Zustand	Neuware