A Lifetime In Academia

Download A Lifetime In Academia full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online A Lifetime In Academia ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

An Academic Life

Author : Hanna Holborn Gray
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691179182
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis An Academic Life by : Hanna Holborn Gray

Download or read book An Academic Life written by Hanna Holborn Gray and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling memoir by the first woman president of a major American university Hanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life in the world of higher education. The daughter of academics, she fled Hitler's Germany with her parents in the 1930s, emigrating to New Haven, where her father was a professor at Yale University. She has studied and taught at some of the world's most prestigious universities. She was the first woman to serve as provost of Yale. In 1978, she became the first woman president of a major research university when she was appointed to lead the University of Chicago, a position she held for fifteen years. In 1991, Gray was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in recognition of her extraordinary contributions to education. An Academic Life is a candid self-portrait by one of academia's most respected trailblazers. Gray describes what it was like to grow up as a child of refugee parents, and reflects on the changing status of women in the academic world. She discusses the migration of intellectuals from Nazi-held Europe and the transformative role these exiles played in American higher education—and how the émigré experience in America transformed their own lives and work. She sheds light on the character of university communities, how they are structured and administered, and the balance they seek between tradition and innovation, teaching and research, and undergraduate and professional learning. An Academic Life speaks to the fundamental issues of purpose, academic freedom, and governance that arise time and again in higher education, and that pose sharp challenges to the independence and scholarly integrity of each new generation.

A Lifetime in Academia

Author : Rayson Huang
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888083279
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (88 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Lifetime in Academia by : Rayson Huang

Download or read book A Lifetime in Academia written by Rayson Huang and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After receiving a classical Chinese primary and a bilingual secondary education in his father's school Rayson Huang entered the University of Hong Kong in 1938. The forty-eight years thereafter, except for two short intervals, were spent in studying, teaching, research, and/or administration in universities in Hong Kong, China, Britain, the United States, Singapore and Malaysia. The first of the two intervals, of about a year, came as a result of the fall of Hong Kong to the Japanese in late 1941 when he moved, as a refugee, into Free China and after a spell of school teaching started his career in a university in Kweilin. The second interval, lasting some six months, was spent making his way by land, air, and sea via Chungking the war-time capital in China's hinterland, and India, to England to take up a scholarship awarded him by the Rhodes Trust at Oxford. The last seventeen years of his working life were taken up serving as vice-chancellor of Nanyang University, the controversial Chinese university in Singapore, and of Hong Kong University. This autobiography records Rayson Huang's diverse university experience of a half century. It also gives an account of the siege of Hong Kong and life in war-torn China and of two bodies on which he later served: the Legislative Council in Hong Kong and Beijing's Drafting Committee which formulated a Basic Law for the territory after its return to China in 1997.

Rhythms of Academic Life

Author : Peter J. Frost
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452264694
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Rhythms of Academic Life by : Peter J. Frost

Download or read book Rhythms of Academic Life written by Peter J. Frost and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1996-07-16 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable source book offers guidance, support and advice for those contemplating or involved in academic careers. The contributions provide rich, personal, sometimes poignant and often humorous accounts of shared and unique experiences of those in the world of academia.

The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career

Author : John A. Goldsmith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226301494
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career by : John A. Goldsmith

Download or read book The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career written by John A. Goldsmith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is a career as a professor the right choice for you? If you are a graduate student, how can you clear the hurdles successfully and position yourself for academic employment? What's the best way to prepare for a job interview, and how can you maximize your chances of landing a job that suits you? What happens if you don't receive an offer? How does the tenure process work, and how do faculty members cope with the multiple and conflicting day-to-day demands? With a perpetually tight job market in the traditional academic fields, the road to an academic career for many aspiring scholars will often be a rocky and frustrating one. Where can they turn for good, frank answers to their questions? Here, three distinguished scholars—with more than 75 years of combined experience—talk openly about what's good and what's not so good about academia, as a place to work and a way of life. Written as an informal conversation among colleagues, the book is packed with inside information—about finding a mentor, avoiding pitfalls when writing a dissertation, negotiating the job listings, and much more. The three authors' distinctive opinions and strategies offer the reader multiple perspectives on typical problems. With rare candor and insight, they talk about such tough issues as departmental politics, dual-career marriages, and sexual harassment. Rounding out the discussion are short essays that offer the "inside track" on financing graduate education, publishing the first book, and leaving academia for the corporate world. This helpful guide is for anyone who has ever wondered what the fascinating and challenging world of academia might hold in store. 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

Mad at School

Author : Margaret Price
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472071386
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Mad at School by : Margaret Price

Download or read book Mad at School written by Margaret Price and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the contested boundaries between disability, illness, and mental illness in higher education

Prestige in Academic Life

Author : Paul Blackmore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317505034
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Prestige in Academic Life by : Paul Blackmore

Download or read book Prestige in Academic Life written by Paul Blackmore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The achievement of academic excellence is inherently competitive. Deliberate government policies, globalisation and changes in communication technologies mean that competitiveness in the academic world is sharper than ever before. At the centre of this is the seeking of prestige, at all levels from the national system to the individual. Prestige in Academic Life aims to increase understanding of motivation in universities by exploring the part that prestige plays, for good and ill. The book’s focus on motivation and prestige helps to answer fundamental questions that run through much discussion on universities, such as why some problems are never solved; why change can be so difficult to achieve; and how individuals and groups can enable it to happen. Issues explored include: • What role does prestige play in academic life? • How does prestige play out in the working lives of academics, students, administrators and institutional leaders? • How can the positive aspects of prestige be encouraged and the negative ones diminished? University leaders and managers, academics, administrators and students, indeed all who are interested in universities, will find this valuable reading. It will help those in leadership positions to enhance the efficiency, effectiveness and wellbeing of their institutions, and will support academic staff in negotiating their career path. Paul Blackmore is Professor of Higher Education in the International Centre for University Policy Research, Policy Institute at King’s, at King’s College London.

How to Be a Happy Academic

Author : Alexander Clark
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1526449048
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (264 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis How to Be a Happy Academic by : Alexander Clark

Download or read book How to Be a Happy Academic written by Alexander Clark and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to be an effective, successful and happy academic? This book helps you hone your skills, showcase your strengths, and manage all the professional aspects of academic life. With their focus on life-long learning and positive reflection, Alex and Bailey encourage you to focus on your own behaviours and personal challenges and help you to find real world solutions to your problems or concerns. Weaving inspirational stories, the best of research and theory, along with pragmatic advice from successful academics, this book provides step-by-step guidance and simple tools to help you better meet the demands of modern academia, including: Optimising your effectiveness, priorities & strategy Workflow & managing workload Interpersonal relationships, and how to influence Developing your writing, presenting and teaching skills Getting your work/life balance right. Clear, practical and refreshingly positive this book inspires you to build the career you want in academia.

Survive and Thrive in Academia

Author : Kate Woodthorpe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351690752
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Survive and Thrive in Academia by : Kate Woodthorpe

Download or read book Survive and Thrive in Academia written by Kate Woodthorpe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pocket mentor for the early career academic learning to strategically navigate the demands of an academic role, this book is a friendly and constructive companion providing hands-on advice about how to balance teaching responsibilities alongside other duties. More than just a ‘how to’, the text is a timely commentary on changes in higher education. Discussing contemporary developments and offering guidance on how to negotiate this evolving climate, the book uniquely captures the political, social, economic and cultural forces at play, taking into account the issues which influence and shape an academic’s career trajectory. Organised around the three main tasks within a conventional academic post – teaching, research and administration – the book includes tips, pauses for thought, author reflections and sources for further reading, and provides insight to help the reader reflect on what they are doing, why, and where to go next in their career. Crucially, it shows that in order to survive and flourish, the early career academic needs to take a strategic view as to their function, purpose and contribution both inside and beyond the intellectual establishment. From establishing a research niche to getting stuck into administration Survive and Thrive empowers the early career academic, helping them to build their academic reputation both internally and externally and maintain a sense of personal fulfilment and accomplishment within an increasingly commercialised environment.

Leaving Academia

Author : Christopher L. Caterine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691200203
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Leaving Academia by : Christopher L. Caterine

Download or read book Leaving Academia written by Christopher L. Caterine and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for grad students and academics who want to find fulfilling careers outside higher education. With the academic job market in crisis, 'Leaving Academia' helps grad students and academics in any scholarly field find satisfying careers beyond higher education. The book offers invaluable advice to visiting and adjunct instructors ready to seek new opportunities, to scholars caught in "tenure-trap" jobs, to grad students interested in nonacademic work, and to committed academics who want to support their students and contingent colleagues more effectively. Providing clear, concrete ways to move forward at each stage of your career change, even when the going gets tough, 'Leaving Academia' is both realistic and hopeful.

Fields of Play

Author : Laurel Richardson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813523798
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (237 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Fields of Play by : Laurel Richardson

Download or read book Fields of Play written by Laurel Richardson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do the specific circumstances in which we write affect what we write? How does what we write affect who we become? How can we maintain professsional and personal integrity in today's university? In a series of traditional and experimental writings, a culmination of ten years of works-in-progress, Laurel Richardson records an intellectual journey, displacing boundaries and creating new ways of reading and writing. Applying the sociological imagination to the writing process, she connects her life to her work. Deeply engaging, movingly written with grace, elegance, and clarity, the book stimulates readers to situate their own writing in personal, social, and political contexts.

Life for the Academic in the Neoliberal University

Author : Alpesh Maisuria
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000732843
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Life for the Academic in the Neoliberal University by : Alpesh Maisuria

Download or read book Life for the Academic in the Neoliberal University written by Alpesh Maisuria and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life for the Academic in the Neoliberal University investigates the impact of neoliberalism on academics in today’s universities. Considering the experiences of early career researchers as well as more experienced academics, it outlines the changing nature of working life in the university precipitated by the reality of de-professionalisation, worsening conditions of employment, and general precarious existence. The book traces the dramatic shift in the role and function of universities and academics over the last forty years. It considers how capitalist neoliberalism drives universities to operate like businesses in a cut-throat financialised education market place. Uniquely the book then provides a possible alternative in the form of the National Education Service (NES) and what this alternative system could look like. Thought-provoking and relevant, this book will be of use to postgraduate students as well as new, emerging, and established academics interested in the current state of higher education, academic life, and possibilities for the future.

The PhDictionary

Author : Herb Childress
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022635931X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The PhDictionary by : Herb Childress

Download or read book The PhDictionary written by Herb Childress and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating academia can seem like a voyage through a foreign land: strange cultural rules dictate everyday interactions, new vocabulary awaits at every turn, and the feeling of being an outsider is unshakable. For students considering doctoral programs and doctoral students considering faculty life, The PhDictionary is a lighthearted companion that illuminates the often opaque customs of academic life. With more than two decades as a doctoral student, college teacher, and administrator, Herb Childress has tripped over almost every possible misunderstood term, run up against every arcane practice, and developed strategies to deal with them all. He combines current data and personal stories into memorable definitions of 150 key phrases and concepts graduate students will need to know (or pretend to know) as they navigate their academic careers. From ABD to white paper—and with buyout, FERPA, gray literature, and soft money in between—each entry contains a helpful definition and plenty of relevant advice. Wry and knowledgeable, Childress is the perfect guide for anyone hoping to scale the ivory tower.

The Academic Citizen

Author : Bruce Macfarlane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134247281
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Academic Citizen by : Bruce Macfarlane

Download or read book The Academic Citizen written by Bruce Macfarlane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With increasing focus on excellence in research and teaching, the service role of the individual academic is often neglected. This book calls for greater recognition of this important aspect of academic life, highlighting the importance of mentoring, committee work and pastoral care in the daily running of universities. Drawing from extensive examples from models around the world, The Academic Citizen points to the benefits of effective communication with colleagues in the faculty, across the university and in corresponding faculties across the world, as well as those in maintaining positive associations with the wider world.

The Blackademic Life

Author : Lavelle Porter
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810141019
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Blackademic Life by : Lavelle Porter

Download or read book The Blackademic Life written by Lavelle Porter and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blackademic Life critically examines academic fiction produced by black writers. Lavelle Porter evaluates the depiction of academic and campus life in literature as a space for black writers to produce counternarratives that celebrate black intelligence and argue for the importance of higher education, particularly in the humanistic tradition. Beginning with an examination of W. E. B. Du Bois’s creative writing as the source of the first black academic novels, Porter looks at the fictional representations of black intellectual life and the expectations that are placed on faculty and students to be racial representatives and spokespersons, whether or not they ever intended to be. The final chapter examines blackademics on stage and screen, including in the 2014 film Dear White People and the groundbreaking television series A Different World.

Mama, PhD

Author : Elrena Evans
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813543185
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Mama, PhD by : Elrena Evans

Download or read book Mama, PhD written by Elrena Evans and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year, American universities publish glowing reports stating their commitment to diversity, often showing statistics of female hires as proof of success. Yet, although women make up increasing numbers of graduate students, graduate degree recipients, and even new hires, academic life remains overwhelming a man's world. The reality that the statistics fail to highlight is that the presence of women, specifically those with children, in the ranks of tenured faculty has not increased in a generation. Further, those women who do achieve tenure track placement tend to report slow advancement, income disparity, and lack of job satisfaction compared to their male colleagues. Amid these disadvantages, what is a Mama, PhD to do? This literary anthology brings together a selection of deeply felt personal narratives by smart, interesting women who explore the continued inequality of the sexes in higher education and suggest changes that could make universities more family-friendly workplaces. The contributors hail from a wide array of disciplines and bring with them a variety of perspectives, including those of single and adoptive parents. They address topics that range from the level of policy to practical day-to-day concerns, including caring for a child with special needs, breastfeeding on campus, negotiating viable maternity and family leave policies, job-sharing and telecommuting options, and fitting into desk/chair combinations while eight months pregnant. Candid, provocative, and sometimes with a wry sense of humor, the thirty-five essays in this anthology speak to and offer support for any woman attempting to combine work and family, as well as anyone who is interested in improving the university's ability to live up to its reputation to be among the most progressive of American institutions.

The Professor Is In

Author : Karen Kelsky
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0553419420
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (534 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Professor Is In by : Karen Kelsky

Download or read book The Professor Is In written by Karen Kelsky and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration. Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success. They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph.D. toward other, non-academic options. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D.’s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including: -When, where, and what to publish -Writing a foolproof grant application -Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV -Acing the job talk and campus interview -Avoiding the adjunct trap -Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more.

The Joys of Being a Professor

Author : Andrew D. Cohen
Publisher : Andrew D. Cohen
ISBN 13 : 9781643880266
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (82 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Joys of Being a Professor by : Andrew D. Cohen

Download or read book The Joys of Being a Professor written by Andrew D. Cohen and published by Andrew D. Cohen. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When university professors are asked how their work is going, the response may focus on difficulties associated with the profession rather than on joys.What, in fact, are some joys that I have had in being a professor? What about joys that those aspiring to become professors might have in choosing this career as their own? And might this informationencourage those already in this career path?It might also provide interesting reading for veteran professors, prompting them to take stock of joys they have encountered. The result was the following book, with entries categorized according to different aspects of a professor's professional work life based on my own personal experiences, with the addition of a few others suggested by colleague. This is a feel-good volume-to demonstrate both to those in the profession and to those others interested in it ways in which being a professor can produce joy.