02393nam 22004933 450 991015508800332120210901202854.01-4758-0799-6(CKB)4340000000024053(MiAaPQ)EBC4767632(Au-PeEL)EBL4767632(CaPaEBR)ebr11316486(CaONFJC)MIL978128(OCoLC)965828166(EXLCZ)99434000000002405320210901d2014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Road to Tenure Interviews, Rejections, and Other Humorous Experiences1st ed.Lanham :Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,2014.©2014.1 online resource (154 pages)1-4758-0798-8 1-4758-0797-X Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I: Startup Costs -- 1 Warning: Scholarship Can Be Hazardous for Your Health -- 2 Lucy and the Football -- 3 Chocolate Frosting and the Art of Interviewing -- 4 Changing Clothes in the Phone Booth -- II: Occupational Dissonance -- 5 Whose Class Is It Anyway? -- 6 When Homer Simpson Writes Homer's Iliad -- 7 How Not to Teach a Class -- 8 Publish, Perish, or Apply for Social Security -- 9 The Life of the Mind . . . in the Company of Others -- III: Professors Are People, Too -- 10 The Village Idiot -- 11 Hot Mess Times Three -- 12 Who's Pro-creating Now? -- 13 How I Got Dismissed from Jury Duty -- About the Editors and Contributors.This book contains humorous recollections of the messiness and confusion that fill the days of a pre-tenure academic - from graduate school through the post-doc, and into the assistant professor days. The stories recount the experiences of pre-tenure academics in the thick of things and trying - perhaps unsuccessfully - to make sense of it all.Road to Tenure College teachers - TenureCollege teachers - Tenure.378.12140922378.122Furtak Erin Marie1189777Renga Ian Parker1243180MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910155088003321The Road to Tenure2883597UNINA