The Academic's Handbook

<div>This new revised and expanded edition of the popular <i>Academic's Handbook</i> is an essential guide for those planning or beginning an academic career.<p>Faculty members administrators and professionals with experience at all levels of higher education offer candid practical advice to help beginning academics understand matters including:<br>- The different kinds of institutions of higher learning and expectations of faculty at each.<br>- The advantages and disadvantages of teaching at four-year colleges instead of research universities.<br>- The ins and outs of the job market.<br>- Alternatives to tenure-track research-oriented positions.<br>- Salary and benefits.<br>- The tenure system.<br>- Pedagogy in both large lecture courses and small discussion-based seminars.<br>- The difficulties facing women and minorities within academia.<br>- Corporations foundations and the federal government as potential sources of research funds.<br>- The challenges of faculty mentoring.<br>- The impact of technology on contemporary teaching and learning.<br>- Different types of publishers and the publishing process at university presses.<br>- The modern research library.<br>- The structure of university governance.<br>- The role of departments within the university.</p><p>With the inclusion of eight new chapters this edition of <i>The Academic's Handbook</i> is designed to ease the transition from graduate school to a well-rounded and rewarding career.</p><p>Contributors. Judith K. Argon Louis J. Budd Ronald R. Butters Norman L. Christensen Joel Colton Paul L. Conway John G. Cross Fred E. Crossland Cathy N. Davidson A. Leigh DeNeef Beth A. Eastlick Matthew W. Finkin Jerry G. Gaff Edie N. Goldenberg Craufurd D. Goodwin Stanley M. Hauerwas Deborah L. Jakubs L. Gregory Jones Nellie Y. McKay Patrick M. Murphy Elizabeth Studley Nathans A. Kenneth Pye Zachary B. Robbins Anne Firor Scott Sudhir Shetty Samuel Schuman Philip Stewart Boyd R. Strain Emily Toth P. Aarne Vesilind Judith S. White Henry M. Wilbur Ken Wissoker</p></div>