Ms Mentors Impeccable Advice For Women In Academia

Author : Emily Toth
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812208110
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia written by Emily Toth and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In question-and-answer form, Ms. Mentor advises academic women about issues they daren't discuss openly, such as: How does one really clamber onto the tenure track when the job market is so nasty, brutish, and small? Is there such a thing as the perfectly marketable dissertation topic? How does a meek young woman become a tiger of an authority figure in the classroom-and get stupendous teaching evaluations? How does one cope with sexual harassment, grandiosity, and bizarre behavior from entrenched colleagues? Ms. Mentor's readers will find answers to the secret queries they were afraid to ask anyone else. They'll discover what it really takes to get tenure; what to wear to academic occasions; when to snicker, when to hide, what to eat, and when to sue. They'll find out how to get firmly planted in the rich red earth of tenure. They'll learn why lunch is the most important meal of the day.

Author : Emily Toth
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812208129
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ms. Mentor's New and Ever More Impeccable Advice for Women and Men in Academia written by Emily Toth and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ms. Mentor, that uniquely brilliant and irascible intellectual, is your all-knowing guide through the jungle that is academia today. In the last decade Ms. Mentor's mailbox has been filled to overflowing with thousands of plaintive epistles, rants, and gossipy screeds. A mere fraction has appeared in her celebrated monthly online and print Q&A columns for the Chronicle of Higher Education; her readers' colorful and rebellious ripostes have gone unpublished—until now. Hearing the call for a follow-up to the wildly successful Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia, Ms. Mentor now broadens her counsel to include academics of the male variety. Ms. Mentor knows all about foraging for jobs, about graduate school stars and serfs, and about mentors and underminers, backbiters and whiners. She answers burning questions: Am I too old, too working class, too perfect, too blonde? When should I reproduce? When do I speak up, laugh, and spill the secrets I've gathered? Do I really have to erase my own blackboard? Does academic sex have to be reptilian? From the ivory tower that affords her an unparalleled view of the academic landscape, Ms. Mentor dispenses her perfect wisdom to the huddled masses of professorial newbies, hardbitten oldies, and anxious midcareerists. She gives etiquette lessons to academic couples and the tough-talking low-down on adjunct positions. She tells you what to wear, how to make yourself popular, and how to decode academic language. She introduces you to characters you must know: Professor Pelvic, Dr. Iron Fist, Mr. Upstart Whelp, Dean Titan, Professor McShameless. In this volume Ms. Mentor once again shares her wide-ranging unexpurgated wisdom, giving tips on bizarre writing rituals, tenure diaries, and time management (Exploding Head Syndrome). She decodes department meetings and teaches you the tricks for getting stellar teaching evaluations. Raw, shocking, precise, clever, absurd—Ms. Mentor has it all.

Author : Roel Snieder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107268680
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Being a Scientist written by Roel Snieder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a hands-on guide for graduate students and young researchers wishing to perfect the practical skills needed for a successful research career. By teaching junior scientists to develop effective research habits, the book helps to make the experience of graduate study a more efficient and rewarding one. The authors have taught a graduate course on the topics covered for many years, and provide a sample curriculum for instructors in graduate schools wanting to teach a similar course. Topics covered include choosing a research topic, department, and advisor; making workplans; the ethics of research; using scientific literature; perfecting oral and written communication; publishing papers; writing proposals; managing time effectively; and planning a scientific career and applying for jobs in research and industry. The wealth of advice is invaluable to students, junior researchers and mentors in all fields of science, engineering, and the humanities. The authors have taught a graduate course on the topics covered for many years, and provide a sample curriculum for instructors in graduate schools wanting to teach a similar course. The sample curriculum is available in the book as Appendix B, and as an online resource.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michelle F. Eble
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1602350744
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories of Mentoring written by Michelle F. Eble and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes mentoring of teachers and scholars in the field of composition and rhetoric.

Author : Hilary Apfelstadt
Publisher : GIA Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781579997601
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wisdom, Wit, and Will written by Hilary Apfelstadt and published by GIA Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes biographies of selected American women choral conductors.

Author : Harvey J. Kaye
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807740194
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Are We Good Citizens? written by Harvey J. Kaye and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical and democratic perspective on American politics, letters, and higher education. Drawing from public and personal experiences, the author invites readers to think about their own level of social consciousness. Topics include: capitalism and class inequality; and teaching and parenting.

Author : Mary Ann Mason
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813560829
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Do Babies Matter? written by Mary Ann Mason and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new generation of scholars differs in many ways from its predecessor of just a few decades ago. Academia once consisted largely of men in traditional single-earner families. Today, men and women fill the doctoral student ranks in nearly equal numbers and most will experience both the benefits and challenges of living in dual-income households. This generation also has new expectations and values, notably the desire for flexibility and balance between careers and other life goals. However, changes to the structure and culture of academia have not kept pace with young scholars’ desires for work-family balance. Do Babies Matter? is the first comprehensive examination of the relationship between family formation and the academic careers of men and women. The book begins with graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, moves on to early and mid-career years, and ends with retirement. Individual chapters examine graduate school, how recent PhD recipients get into the academic game, the tenure process, and life after tenure. The authors explore the family sacrifices women often have to make to get ahead in academia and consider how gender and family interact to affect promotion to full professor, salaries, and retirement. Concrete strategies are suggested for transforming the university into a family-friendly environment at every career stage. The book draws on over a decade of research using unprecedented data resources, including the Survey of Doctorate Recipients, a nationally representative panel survey of PhDs in America, and multiple surveys of faculty and graduate students at the ten-campus University of California system..

Author : Jean Ann Waltman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mentoring and Academic Success for Women Faculty Members at Research Universities written by Jean Ann Waltman and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the mentoring experiences of female faculty members at research universities and describes the kinds of mentoring that appear most to support their career success. Asks what women's personal experiences with mentoring have been, what the characteristics of the mentoring relationships are, and what influence academic discipline has on the mentoring needs of female faculty members at research universities.

Author : Mary Anne Holmes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119067596
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in the Geosciences written by Mary Anne Holmes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read an interview with the author: "Working Toward Gender Parity in the Geosciences" The geoscience workforce has a lower proportion of women compared to the general population of the United States and compared to many other STEM fields. This volume explores issues pertaining to gender parity in the geosciences, and sheds light on some of the best practices that increase participation by women and promote parity. Volume highlights include: • Lessons learned from NSF-ADVANCE • Data on gender composition of faculty at top earth science institutions in the US • Implicit bias and gender as a social structure • Strategies for institutional change • Dual career couples • Family friendly policies • Role of mentoring • Career advancement for women • Recruiting diverse faculty • Models of institutional transformation Women in the Geosciences is a valuable contribution to the existing literature on gender issues in STEM disciplines. It focuses specifically on the geosciences, with a goal to spreading awareness on the best practices for gender parity in academic geoscience departments. Geoscientists, policymakers, educators and administrators could all greatly benefit from the contents of this volume.