The road to tenure
Subtitle: interviews, rejections, and other humorous experiences
By: edited by Erin Marie Furtak and Ian Parker Renga
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9781475807974; 9781475807981; 9781475807998
Subjects: College teachers; Anecdotes; Humor; American wit and humor; Tenure
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Erin Marie Furtak and Ian Parker Renga; title: Startup costs; title: Warning : scholarship can be hazardous for your health / Ian Parker Renga; title: Lucy and the football : my search for a job in a Charlie Brown world / Steve Newton; title: Chocolate frosting & the art of interviewing / Heather M. Bandeen; title: Changing clothes in the phone booth / Jessalynn Strauss; title: Occupational dissonance; title: Whose class is it anyway? / Julie C. Mitchell; title: When Homer Simpson writes Homer's Iliad : preventing plagiarism while keeping your promotion / Troy Appling; title: How not to teach a class / Andrew Shtulman; title: Publish, perish, or apply for social security : reflections on the tenure process / Logan Greene; title: The life of the mind in the company of others / Amanda Jansen; title: Professors are people, too; title: The village idiot / Erin Marie Furtak; title: Hot mess times three / Hindi Krinsky; title: Who's pro-creating now? : two sides of parenting in the academe / Lara Narcisi and Scott Dimovitz; title: How i got dismissed from jury duty : a reflection on philosophy and public life / Rick Anthony Furtak.