num_pages: 272
description: 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&amp;A columns for the Chronicle of Higher Education ; her readers' colorful and rebellious ripostes have gone unpublisheduntil 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 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 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 absurdMs. Mentor has it all.
language: English
title: Ms. Mentor's New and Ever More Impeccable Advice for Women and Men in Academia
publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press