- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Stylus Publishing, LLC (Mar 1 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1579222641
- ISBN-13: 978-1579222642
- Product Dimensions: 20.5 x 15.1 x 1.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 227 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #77,501 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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* 199 tips for getting your PhD and surviving and thriving in your first years of teaching
* Irreverent, but serious, guide to what higher education institutions are REALLY like
* Illustrated with original cartoons to bring the hints to life
Just landed your first faculty position? Close to getting your Ph.D., and planning a career in academe? Already in your first job? This insightful guide will help you achieve success.
What will academic life be like? How do you discover its tacit rules? Develop the habits and networks needed for success? What issues will you encounter if youâre a person of color, or a woman? How is higher education changing?
In 199 succinct, and often humorous but seriously practical hints, Paul Gray and David E. Drew share their combined experience of many years as faculty and (recovering) administrators to offer insider adviceâthe kind that's rarely taught or even talked about in graduate school.
For instance, Gray and Drew advise you on what you can do to become known in your field and also to be humble about your Ph.D. They also warn you of the danger points along the Ph.D. path, and the possible stumbling blocks with litigious students. Their hints can cover topics as lofty as quantitative and qualitative methods and as mundaneâbut still as importantâas negotiating campus parking.
For easy reference as you climb the academic ladder, the hints are divided into 15 short chapters and 4 appendices covering the stages and responsibilities of faculty life.
As the authors state, âIt is a good life and it is a lifestyle for which you even get paidâ. These hints will help you both make a valuable contribution to, and get the most from, academe.
And if you are really penurious, persuade a family member or friend to buy this book for you.
* Irreverent, but serious, guide to what higher education institutions are REALLY like
* Illustrated with original cartoons to bring the hints to life
Just landed your first faculty position? Close to getting your Ph.D., and planning a career in academe? Already in your first job? This insightful guide will help you achieve success.
What will academic life be like? How do you discover its tacit rules? Develop the habits and networks needed for success? What issues will you encounter if youâre a person of color, or a woman? How is higher education changing?
In 199 succinct, and often humorous but seriously practical hints, Paul Gray and David E. Drew share their combined experience of many years as faculty and (recovering) administrators to offer insider adviceâthe kind that's rarely taught or even talked about in graduate school.
For instance, Gray and Drew advise you on what you can do to become known in your field and also to be humble about your Ph.D. They also warn you of the danger points along the Ph.D. path, and the possible stumbling blocks with litigious students. Their hints can cover topics as lofty as quantitative and qualitative methods and as mundaneâbut still as importantâas negotiating campus parking.
For easy reference as you climb the academic ladder, the hints are divided into 15 short chapters and 4 appendices covering the stages and responsibilities of faculty life.
As the authors state, âIt is a good life and it is a lifestyle for which you even get paidâ. These hints will help you both make a valuable contribution to, and get the most from, academe.
And if you are really penurious, persuade a family member or friend to buy this book for you.
About the Author
Laurie Richlin is Director of Faculty Development, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, as well as Director of the regional Lilly Conferences on College and University Teaching, Executive Editor of the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, and President of the International Alliance of Teacher Scholars
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5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: What They Didn't Teach You in Graduate School: 199 Helpful Hints for Success in Your Academic Career (Paperback)
Great book, useful tips for a person wanting to pursue an academic career. Some of the tips are just common sense - something you would come up with having thought about the subject for a few minutes; others are were something I would not have necessarily thought of myself. The book is written and presented in a fun and easy-to-read format.
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4.4 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews) 25 of 27 people found the following review helpful
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Easy-to-read guide to the life of academics,
By J. Lakin - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: What They Didn't Teach You in Graduate School: 199 Helpful Hints for Success in Your Academic Career (Paperback)
This is a nice addition to the genre of guides for new and future academics. The 199 tips are pithy and insightful. The topics range from job hunting, tenure, writing, and diversity on campus. There is even a short appendix on writing the dissertation. I think the advice is geared more towards academics going to research-intensive universities, but probably has a lot to offer academics in teaching institutions as well. I believe it will appeal to a range of fields.You can't expect much meat from a help book under 150 pages, but the advice is wide-ranging, so I think most graduate students or new faculty would find many new tips and ideas in this book. It is certainly an easy read and worth looking through. For someone without a lot of exposure to the day-to-day life of a professor, it would be very valuable. 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Limited but useful,
By Michelle "grad student, geek, giraffe enthusiast" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: What They Didn't Teach You in Graduate School: 199 Helpful Hints for Success in Your Academic Career (Paperback)
This is a helpful book, no doubt, but it's not life-changing. The advice is not exactly practical but I think it's good (to read, maybe not to follow) if you don't know much about the *culture* of higher education and want to see what you're getting yourself into, haha. I had many, "I didn't know that was expected of me" moments in reading this. If anything, I recommend reading it with the same critical eye you use for your other grad school texts.I appreciate that the authors are frank and that the book doesn't have a narrative format. The last thing I need to do is make time to read another book cover-to-cover--the topical chapters and numbered "hints" make this easy to read, leisurely, and still helpful. Unfortunately, this book takes the same approach as many other books and assumes that there is a One Right Way to have a successful academic career (and that there is a One Right Person who is capable of such a thing). It's good to know what is expected from the One Right Person, but it's also good to know that all institutions and academics are different. 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Helpful, quick read with uselful hints for a successful academic career,
By gerame - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: What They Didn't Teach You in Graduate School: 199 Helpful Hints for Success in Your Academic Career (Paperback)
This book is a fun and informational read about how to prepare for an academic career. Some of the suggestions are well-known but the format in which they are presented are good reminders of what you should be doing to make you're on the right track. It is easy to read, with quick easy suggestions and presented in a fun and informational way.
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