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Scholar's Survival Manual A Road Map for Students, Faculty, and Administrators

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ISBN-10: 0253010632

ISBN-13: 9780253010636

Edition: 2013

Authors: Martin H. Krieger

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The product of a lifetime of experience in American universities, The Scholar's Survival Manual offers advice for students, professors, and administrators on such matters as the path to becoming a professor, getting tenured, and making visible contributions to scholarship, as well as serving on promotion and tenure committees. Martin H. Krieger covers a broad cross section of the academic experience from a graduate student's first foray into the job market through retirement. Because advice is notoriously difficult to take and context matters a great deal, Krieger has allowed his ideas to percolate through dozens of discussions. Some of the advice is instrumental and on matters of…    
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Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 10/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 1.298

Martin H. Krieger is on the faculty of the University of Southern California and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. His doctorate, in physics, is from Columbia University. His books Constitutions of Matter (1996) and Doing Mathematics (2003) are follow-ups to Doing Physics.

Preface
Acknowledgments
A Way into This Guide
Glossary
Graduate School (Essays #1-54)
Writing (#55-95)
Getting Done (#96-112)
Getting the First Job (#113-150)
Junior and Probationary Faculty (#151-174)
Grants, Fellowships, and Other Pecuniary Resources (#175-183)
Your Career (#184-219)
Tenure and Promotion (#220-290)
After Tenure--Associate and Full Professorship (#291-307)
Scholarly and Academic Ethos (#308-391)
Stronger Faculties and Stronger Institutions (#392-420)