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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Becoming a Scholar | |
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| Deciding on an Academic Career | |
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| The advantages and disadvantages of academic life | |
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| Academic salaries | |
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| Academic freedom | |
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| The personality traits of successful graduate students | |
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| Entering Graduate School | |
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| Differences between undergraduate and graduate training | |
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| Preconditions for a graduate education | |
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| Questions to ask yourself | |
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| Financial considerations | |
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| Picking the right school | |
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| Specialization | |
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| Knowing whether you've made the right career choice | |
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| The Inside Track: Financing Graduate Education | |
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| The Mentor | |
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| The role of the mentor | |
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| Finding a mentor | |
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| The mentoring commitment | |
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| Writing a Dissertation | |
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| Prerequisites | |
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| The dissertation requirement | |
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| Choosing a topic | |
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| How long it takes to write a thesis | |
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| Becoming discouraged and persevering | |
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| Landing an Academic Job | |
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| Preparing to enter the academic job market | |
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| Presenting a paper at a conference | |
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| The job search | |
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| How to read job advertisements | |
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| Assembling the dossier | |
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| Application letters | |
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| Letters of reference | |
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| The c.v. | |
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| Interviews at national meetings | |
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| What should be avoided | |
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| Applying as a couple | |
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| The short list | |
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| The campus visit | |
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| The job talk | |
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| Rejections | |
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| How long to keep trying | |
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| Receiving and evaluating offers | |
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| Negotiating the terms of the appointment | |
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| The "two-body" problem | |
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| Multiple offers | |
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| The Inside Track: Leaving Academia for the Corporate World | |
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| The Academic Profession | |
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| The Life of the Assistant Professor | |
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| Beginning the first job | |
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| Juggling responsibilities | |
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| Sorting out priorities | |
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| Committees and commitments | |
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| Keeping tenure in view | |
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| Getting along with colleagues | |
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| The institutional bureaucracy | |
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| Departmental politics | |
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| Getting involved in institutional change | |
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| Long-term goals | |
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| Family considerations | |
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| Job satisfaction | |
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| Teaching and Research | |
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| What teaching is all about | |
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| Expectations at research universities | |
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| Expectations at teaching institutions | |
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| Preparing a syllabus | |
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| Learning how to teach | |
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| Exams and writing assignments | |
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| The first day of class | |
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| Evaluating students' work | |
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| Evaluating your own teaching | |
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| Teaching at the graduate level | |
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| Plagiarism and other ethical issues | |
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| Making life easier on yourself | |
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| "Publish or perish" | |
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| Beginning to publish | |
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| Finding the right journal | |
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| Submitting the article | |
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| The editor's decision | |
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| Referee reports | |
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| Coauthoring | |
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| Publishing a book | |
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| Getting grants | |
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| Surviving writer's block | |
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| The Inside Track: Publishing the First Book | |
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| Tenure | |
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| Why tenure exists | |
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| The tenure review process | |
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| Evaluation criteria | |
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| Attacks on tenure | |
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| Being denied tenure | |
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| Opportunities outside academia | |
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| Competition in the University System and Outside Offers | |
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| The forces of competition | |
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| Mobility and loyalty | |
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| Junior and senior hires | |
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| Outside offers as a way to move up | |
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| The Inside Track: Consulting and Intellectual Property | |
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| Family, Gender, and the Personal Side of Academic Life | |
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| Effects on family | |
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| Shared appointments | |
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| Discrimination in academia | |
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| Sexual harassment and consensual relationships | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Administrative Structure of a University | |
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| Policies on Parental Leave and Shared Positions | |
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| Tables | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Index | |