Suggested resources in the following areas revised by MIT Libraries (updated August 12, 2006):
Preparing future faculty
http://www.preparing-faculty.org/
http://www.preparing-faculty.org/PFFWeb.Resources.htm good resources list
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
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)
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
http://hrweb.mit.edu/worklife/index.html MIT Center for Work, Family, and Personal Life (See sections for students)
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
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/
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
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
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
Office of Sponsored Programs
http://web.mit.edu/osp/www/
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
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
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
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 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/
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/
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
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
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
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
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/