num_pages: 112
description: Steven M. Cahn's advice on the professorial life covers an extensive range of critical issues: how to plan complete and defend a dissertation; how to navigate a job interview; how to improve teaching performance; how to prepare and publish research; how to develop a professional network; and how to garner support for tenure. He deals with such hurdles as a difficult dissertation advisor problematic colleagues and the pressures of the tenure clock. Whether you are beginning graduate study hoping to secure an academic position or striving to build a professorial career Cahn's insights are invaluable to traversing the thickets of academia.
language: English
title: From Student to Scholar: A Candid Guide to Becoming a Professor
publisher: Columbia University Press