Managing Your Academic Career

<p>The definitive resource for mid-career professionals in the academy this book provides a step-by-step guide to re-imagining the mid-career stage regardless of career goals whether aiming for full professorship or an administrative path drawing on higher education organizational studies and human resource fields. </p><p>Essential guidance for scholars of faculty work faculty developers mid-career faculty members and institutional leaders to build a strong foundation to design a diversified portfolio of mid-career stage programming is assured. The stories examples literature and resources shared throughout this comprehensive work will provide inspiration and reality checks to mid-career faculty and the individuals charged with better supporting them. Readers will be able to: </p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Identify their career (or departmental/institutional) goals and next steps</li> <p> </p> <li>Determine the gaps in needed skills tools and experiences to support goal achievement as next steps are pursued</li> <p> </p> <li>Manage the process of taking newfound skills tools strategies and resources to arrive at the intended destination. </li> </ul><p>Higher education faculty administrators and other academic leaders will be empowered to take control of the mid-career stage by using the resources strategies and tools offered throughout the book to build implement and assess a robust mid-career faculty development program.</p>