The Academic′s Handbook

✍ Scribed by Lori Flores, Jocelyn Olcott

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 348
• Edition: 4th Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In recent years, the academy has undergone significant changes: a more competitive and volatile job market has led to widespread precarity, teaching and service loads have become more burdensome, and higher education is becoming increasingly corporatized. In this revised and expanded edition of The Academic's Handbook, more than fifty contributors from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds offer practical advice for academics at every career stage, whether they are first entering the job market or negotiating the post-tenure challenges of leadership and administrative roles. Contributors affirm what is exciting and fulfilling about academic work while advising readers about how to set and protect boundaries around their energy and labor. In addition, the contributors tackle topics such as debates regarding technology, social media, and free speech on campus; publishing and grant writing; attending to the many kinds of diversity among students, staff, and faculty; and how to balance work and personal responsibilities. A passionate and compassionate volume, The Academic's Handbook is an essential guide to navigating life in the academy.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
Title - complete......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Part I | Your Career Arc from Grad School to Retirement......Page 18
Ch. 1: The Tenure-Track Job Search, Start to Finish - Karen Kelsky......Page 20
Ch. 2: Developing an Academic Identity: Lead with You - Yuridia Ramirez......Page 29
Ch. 3: How to Negotiate for a Higher Salary - Lori Flores and Jocelyn Olcott......Page 35
Ch. 4: Scholarship and Life off the Tenure Track - Bryan Pitts......Page 39
Ch. 5: The Dangers of Doing Other Things: Why Im a Scholar but Not an Academic - Cynthia R. Greenlee......Page 43
Ch. 6: From Contract to Tenure - Sylvanna M. Falcon......Page 49
Ch. 7: A Few Rules of Thumb about Conference Presentations and Invited Talks - Lori Flores and Jocelyn Olcott......Page 56
Ch. 8: Finding My Way in Academia: My Non-Tenure-Track Path to Success in Food Studies - Sarah Portnoy......Page 58
Ch. 9: Surviving the Dream - Sarah Deutsch......Page 67
Part II | The Trinity of Academic Life: Research, Teaching, and Service......Page 78
Ch. 10: Applying Successfully for Grants and Fellowships - Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, Luis Alvarez, and Ernesto Chavez......Page 82
Ch. 11: The Modern Research Library - David Hansen and Deborah Jakubs......Page 93
Ch. 12: Suggestions for Alleviating IRB Angst - James E. Sutton......Page 106
Ch. 13: Informed Consent and the Ethics of IRB Research: A Case Study of the Havasupai Tribes Lawsuit against Genetic Researchers - Nanibaa A. Garrison......Page 114
Ch. 14: Publishing Your Research - Rosanna Kathleen Olsen......Page 120
Ch. 15: Academic Book Publishing - Cathy N. Davidson and Ken Wissoker......Page 129
Ch. 16: Holding the Space: Reflections on Small-Class Teaching and Learning - Magdalena Maczynska......Page 153
Ch. 17: Teaching the Large Lecture - Genevieve Carpio and Neil K. Garg......Page 167
Ch. 18: Lessons from the #FergusonSyllabus - Marcia Chatelain......Page 176
Ch. 19: Creative Approaches to Student Assessment......Page 183
Ch. 20: Technology in Teaching - Laura M. Harrison......Page 192
Ch. 21: Neurodiversity in the Classroom - John Elder Robison and Karin Wulf......Page 200
Ch. 22: Typical Dreamer: Some Reflections on Teaching, Advising, and Advocating for Undocumented, Veteran, and Nontraditional Students - Eladio Bobadilla......Page 204
Ch. 23: Understanding Microagressions - Antar Tichavakunda......Page 214
Ch. 24: Shifting Borders: Collaborative Teaching and Researching with Students on Latinx Roots in Oregon - Lynn Stephen......Page 219
Ch. 25: The Florida Prison Education Project - Keri Watson......Page 228
Ch. 26: So, You Want to Start a College-in-Prison Program? - Kathryn J. Fox......Page 232
Ch. 27: Service Learning: Doing Development in West Africa - Charles Piot......Page 234
Ch. 28: Mentoring for Success across the Academic Spectrum - Joy Gaston Gayles and Bridget Turner Kelly......Page 243
Ch. 29: Anonymous: Making the Best of a Peer Review - Sharon P. Holland......Page 251
Ch. 30: Questions to Ask Yourself about Requests for Service - Lori Florse and Jocelyn Olcott......Page 258
Part III | Issues in Todays Academy......Page 262
Ch. 31: Navigating Social Media as an Academic - Natalia Mehlman Petrzela......Page 266
Ch. 32: My Social Media Philosophy in (Roughly) One Thousand Words - N.D.B. Connoly......Page 269
Ch. 33: Moving beyond Student Teaching Evaluations - Michelle Falkoff......Page 272
Ch. 34: Work-Family Balance in Academia - Lauren Hall-Lew and Heidi Harley......Page 276
Ch. 35: Ableism in the Academy: Its Whats for Breakfast - Stephen Kuusisto......Page 283
Ch. 36: Free Speech and Academic Freedom - Matthew W. Finkin......Page 285
Ch. 37: Contingency - Cary Nelson......Page 296
Ch. 38: The Corporate University in the Age of Trump - David Schultz......Page 306
Ch. 39: Making Campus Safer: Academics Fighting Sexual Violence and Sexual Harrassment - Elizabeth Quay Hutchison......Page 313
Ch. 40: Decolonizing and Building Community - Kelly Fayard......Page 329
Contributors......Page 334
Index......Page 342

✦ Subjects

Higher Education; College Teachers: United States; Universities And Colleges: United States