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Suggested Resources in the following areas revised by MIT Libraries (updated August 12, 2006):

 

  General guides for managing an academic career

Web sites

Preparing future faculty
http://www.preparing-faculty.org/
http://www.preparing-faculty.org/PFFWeb.Resources.htm  good resources list

Books

Paula J. Caplan (1993). Lifting a Ton of Feathers: A Woman's Guide for Surviving in the Academic World/, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Available at Hayden Library, Women’s Studies Reading Room, LB2332.3.c37 1993
http://library.mit.edu/F/?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=000682144

Robert Boice (2000). Advice for New Faculty Members. Allyn and Bacon.
Available through Amazon here

Richard Reis, Tomorrow’s Professor (1997). IEEE.
Available at Barker and Hayden Libraries, Q149.U5.R45, 1997
http://library.mit.edu/F/?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=000822675

Stephen Rosen and Celia Paul(1998). Career renewal:  tools for scientists and technical professionals. San Diego:  Academic Press.
Available at Hayden Library, Q149.U5.R67 1998
http://library.mit.edu/F/?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=000961799

Donald H. Wulff, Ann E. Austin. Paths to the professoriate:  strategies for enriching the preparation of future faculty.   
Available at Hayden Library, LB2331.P3625 2004
 http://library.mit.edu/F/?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=001330031  

Current awareness

 Inside Higher Education
http://insidehighered.com/ (free)

Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com (some free content, some requires subscription. Many back articles are available online via MIT Libraries Vera database, http://libraries.mit.edu/vera )

The Scientist
http://www.the-scientist.com/ (subscription only, not available online from MIT Libraries)

Personal accounts

Searchable archive on the website of the Chronicle of Higher Education, “Firsthand accounts of Ph.D.'s on landing jobs and working in academe, or outside the ivory tower.”
http://chronicle.com/jobs/archive/firstpersonarch.htm

 

Family and career

Resources at MIT

http://hrweb.mit.edu/worklife/index.html MIT Center for Work, Family, and Personal Life (See sections for students)

Selected articles

The Chronicle of Higher Education: Advice Column: Balancing Act: How to find a balance between work and family.
http://chronicle.com/jobs/archive/advice/balancing.htm

Dual Career Academic Couples: Record of panel discussion, March 9, 2000, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan.
http://www.rackham.umich.edu/StudentInfo/workshops/2000Winter/DualCareer.html

Gail Simmons (April 2005). “Reproductive Success for Working Scientists.”
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2005/04/2005042601c.htm

How to Cope on the Market as an Academic Couple, Ellen Ostrow.
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2003/02/2003021701c.htm

Do Babies Matter? The Effect of Family Formation on the Lifelong  Careers of Academic Men and Women, Mary Ann Mason and Marc Goulden (2002)
http://www.aaup.org/publications/Academe/2002/02nd/02ndmas.htm

Balancing Faculty Careers and Family Work, 2004. Special issue of Academe Online, November-December 2004, v. 90 n. 6. Includes articles on: Do Babies Matter (Part II)? Closing the Baby Gap. Hitting the Maternal Wall. Balancing Work and Family for Faculty: Why it’s Important. Developing and Implementing Work-Family Policies for Faculty. Fear Factor: How Safe is it to Make Time for Family? Family-Friendly Policies and the Research University. Working Part Time After Tenure.
http://www.aaup.org/publications/Academe/2004/04nd/04ndtoc.htm

Singing the Grad-School Baby Blues, Joan Williams (2002) http://chronicle.com/jobs/2004/04/2004042001c.htm

Elizabeth Freeland's Career Breaks Webpage. “Devoted to the dissemination of information about career breaks for scientists; the main focus being physics and related fields.”
http://home.earthlink.net/~papagena/CareerBreaks.html

“Getting Back into Research,” Spring 2004, Elizabeth Freeland's article on Career Breaks from the Gazette, a newsletter of the Committee on the Status of Women in Physics of the APS
http://www.student.seas.gwu.edu/~forward/advance/CSWP_EFreeland.pdf  

 

Getting the job

Resources at MIT

MIT Careers Office provides an excellent gateway to web-accessible resources for career seekers:
http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/resources.html
http://web.mit.edu/career/www/

Other job guides and website resources

National Postdoctoral Scholars Association: many career related resources 
http://www.nationalpostdoc.org/

The Chronicle of Higher Education: Advice Column: Career Talk - Practical guidance for academic job seekers from professional career counselors.
http://chronicle.com/jobs/archive/advice/talk.htm

Northern California Higher Education Recruitment Consortium: “Eighteen universities in Northern California have banded together to start a web site that helps dual-career couples find academic jobs in the same area.. The service is called the Higher Education Recruitment Consortium.  The 18 university members pay an annual fee to maintain the website, which lists all job openings for professors, administrators, and staff members.  The consortium includes the Universities of California at Berkeley and at Davis, as well as Stanford University and the Foothill-DeAnza Community College District.  Job seekers have free access to the site, which has advertised 13,000 jobs since it was launched in October 2003.
http://www.bayareaherc.org/ikorb.php

Science, math, and engineering career resources
http://www.phds.org/?section=12

Getting an Academic Job, Michael Ernst.
http://pag.lcs.mit.edu/~mernst/advice/academic-job.html

   

Planning and funding research

Why

Doug Lederman (June 9, 2005).  “Telling postdocs about tenure.” “When the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund convened a panel to advise postdocs and new faculty members in the sciences on how to win tenure Wednesday, the overpowering message was: Research is still king. ‘I have two words for you: grants and papers,’ said Matthew Redinbo, an associate professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Teaching and service ‘have to be there’ and can’t be ignored, he said, but ‘it’s the first two things that are going to get you tenure.’”
http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/06/09/hughes

How

Karen Markin (January 2005).  “The Buck Starts Here.” “Scientific expertise alone won't get you a research grant. You also need to be "street smart" about grants -- something you may not have learned in graduate school.”
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2005/02/2005022101c.htm

MIT resources

Office of Sponsored Programs
http://web.mit.edu/osp/www/

NSF

National Science Foundation: MyNSF (formerly Custom News Service) – sign up to learn about funding opportunities in your research area.
http://www.nsf.gov/mynsf/

National Science Foundation: Grant Proposal Guide.
http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?gpg

National Science Foundation: How to Manage Your Award.
http://www.nsf.gov/awards/managing/

National Science Foundation:  Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Solicitation
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5262

National Science Foundation: Advance: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5383 

National Science Foundation: Award data – searchable award abstracts database.
http://www.nsf.gov/awards/about.jsp

NIH

National Institutes of Health: Award Data
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/award/award.htm

National Institutes of Health: Career Development Awards
http://grants.nih.gov/training/careerdevelopmentawards.htm 

Selected other Federal funding

 NASA Research Opportunities
http://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/

NASA Guidebook for proposers responding to NASA research announcement
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS44343 

Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program
http://www.onr.navy.mil/sci%5Ftech/industrial/363/yip.asp

Selected writing resources

 Kenneth Henson, Writing for publication:  road to academic advancement.  Boston, 2005
Available at Hayden Library – PN146.H38 2005
http://library.mit.edu/F/?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=001288964

Liane Reif-Lehrer, Grant application writer’s handbook, 2005.
Available at Hayden Library, Reference Collection, R853.P75.R439 2005
http://library.mit.edu/F/?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=001287328

Chapin, Paul G., Research projects and research proposals: a guide for scientists seeking funding.  2004. 
Available at Hayden Library – Q180.55.G7.C44 2004
http://library.mit.edu/F/?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=001272244

 

Teaching

MIT resources

Teaching and Learning Laboratory, including a link to their library of books, videos, and other resources.
http://web.mit.edu/tll/
http://web.mit.edu/tll/published.htm

Teaching with technology
http://web.mit.edu/teachtech/

Teaching Tips

http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip.htm
http://www.mcmaster.ca/cll/resources/teaching.tips/
http://teaching.berkeley.edu/compendium/

 

Negotiation

Tips

http://www.bbraham.com/html/negotiation.html
http://www.collegejournal.com/salaryinfo/negotiationtips/
http://www.usfca.edu/usf/career/salary.html (salary survey)
http://www.askmen.com/money/career/36_career.html
http://jobsmart.org/tools/salary/negostrt.cfm#Web

Articles and books

The Power of Saying No, Linda Tillman
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/tillman6.html

Salary raises from a department chair's point of view
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2004/04/2004042301c.htm

Negotiating Salary in the Nonacademic World, Gwendolyn Bradley
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2001/10/2001100801c.htm

Women Don't Ask - Negotiation and the Gender Divide, Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever, Princeton: Princeton University Press, c2003
Available at Dewey Library, Impulse Borrowing Display, HD58.6.B33 2003
http://library.mit.edu/F/?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=001224540

 

Service without over-commitment

On Collegiality as a Criterion for Faculty Evaluation (AAUP)
http://www.aaup.org/statements/Redbook/collegia.htm

Typical Expression of Service Requirement for Faculty
http://www.usc.edu/academe/acsen/about_senate/whitepapers/wp94_echem.html

Faculty of Color and Traditional Notions of Service, Benjamin Baez, NEA Higher Education Journal
http://www.nea.org/he/heta99/f99p131.pdf

 

Beyond academia

Researching your Prospective Employer – guide from the MIT Libraries
http://libraries.mit.edu/science/companyresearchsummer05.pdf

The Chronicle of Higher Education: Advice Column: Beyond the Ivory Tower - What you should know about nonacademic careers for Ph.D.'s
http://chronicle.com/jobs/archive/advice/beyond.htm

 

Finishing the PhD – or not

Bolker, Joan.  Writing your dissertation in fifteen minutes a day:  a guide to starting, revising, and finishing your doctoral thesis.
Available at:  Hayden Library, LB2369.B57 1998, also at Rotch Library Reference Collection under the same call number.
http://library.mit.edu/F/?func=find-acc&acc_sequence=012411699

Megan Pincus Kajitani, June 2005.  “Should you finish?”
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2005/06/2005061001c.htm

Barbara E. Lovitts (2001) Leaving the ivory tower: the causes and consequences of departure from doctoral study.
Available at Hayden Library: LB2386.L68 2001
http://library.mit.edu/F/?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=001225610

Support group for finishing dissertations: PhinisheD
http://www.phinished.org/

 

 

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