LEADER 02393nam 22004933 450 001 9910155088003321 005 20210901202854.0 010 $a1-4758-0799-6 035 $a(CKB)4340000000024053 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4767632 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4767632 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11316486 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL978128 035 $a(OCoLC)965828166 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000024053 100 $a20210901d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Road to Tenure $eInterviews, Rejections, and Other Humorous Experiences 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLanham :$cRowman & Littlefield Publishers,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014. 215 $a1 online resource (154 pages) 311 08$a1-4758-0798-8 311 08$a1-4758-0797-X 327 $aIntro -- 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. 330 $aThis 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. 517 $aRoad to Tenure 606 $aCollege teachers - Tenure 615 0$aCollege teachers - Tenure. 676 $a378.12140922 676 $a378.122 700 $aFurtak$b Erin Marie$01189777 701 $aRenga$b Ian Parker$01243180 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910155088003321 996 $aThe Road to Tenure$92883597 997 $aUNINA