New Faculty: A Practical Guide for Academic Beginners

by Christopher J. Lucas, John W. Murry Jr., Christopher J. & John W. Murry Jr. Lucas

Book Overview

Successfully launching an academic career in the challenging environment of higher education today is apt to require more explicit preparation than the informal socialization typically afforded in graduate school. As a faculty novice soon discovers, job success requires balancing multiple demands on one's time and energy. New Faculty offers a useful compendium of "survival" advice for the faculty newcomer on a variety of subjects: practical tips on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230114865
• ISBN13: 9780230114869
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Just what it advertises

This book is just what it advertises - it is good down-to-earth and practical advice for those just starting out on their teaching careers. I've been teaching for several years but I found a good number of ideas in here to help orient our new faculty. I have just pulled every book in the library I could find on preparing faculty to instruct and this one was the best of the entire pile. I think it should be read by everyone just starting their teaching career.