Resource Title:
Getting Ready for an Academic Career: Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Conference Handouts
Course Type:
All
General Resources
- The Truth About Tenure in Higher Education
- What Do College Professors Do All Day?
- Going on the Job Market, ABD: Part One and Part Two
Sessions listed in alphabetical order
Building Communities of Support Toward a Successful Academic Job Search
Designing an Effective Teaching Demonstration
- Teaching Demonstration Handout
- Slides
- Eight Tips for Teaching Presentations
- Valuing and Evaluating Teaching in Academic Hiring: A Multidisciplinary, Cross-Institutional Study
- The Teaching Demonstration: What Faculty Expect and How to Prepare for This Aspect of the Job Interview
- Teaching Demonstrations: Advice and Strategies
- How Can You Incorporate Active Learning Into Your Classroom?
- Classroom Assessment Techniques
Developing Your Teaching Philosophy
- Rubric for Statements of Teaching Philosophy
- Voting Sheet
- Engineering Teaching Philosophy
- Humanities Teaching Philosophy
- Professions Teaching Philosophy
- Science Teaching Philosophy
- Social Science Teaching Philosophy
- Getting Started on Your Reflective Teaching Statement
- Writing a Statement of Teaching Philosophy
- Writing a Winning Teaching Statement
Faculty Life at a Teaching-Focused Institution
Faculty Success Off the Tenure Track
- AAUP on the Status of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
- Satisfaction and Discontent: Voices of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
From Interview to Job: The Hiring Process in Humanities and Social Sciences
From Interview to Job: The Hiring Process in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Fields
Interviewing for Academic Positions: Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Interviewing for Academic Positions: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Fields
Mentoring Undergraduate Students
- Slides
- Entering Mentoring: A Seminar to Train a New Generation of Scientists
- Five Effective Strategies for Mentoring Undergraduates: Students' Perspectives
- The Intentional Mentor: Effective Mentorship of Undergraduate Science Students
Moving In and Out of Academe
- Successfully Making Transitions Between Academia and Industry
- Ten Simple Rules for Choosing Between Industry and Academia
Starting and Running Your Faculty Research Agenda: Humanities and Non-Lab Social Sciences
Starting and Running Your Faculty Research Lab
Strategies, Tools, and Resources for Productivity
The Future of Higher Education in a Digital World
The Tenure-Track Process
- Giving and Getting Career Advice: A Guide for Junior Faculty and Senior Faculty
- Starting on the Tenure Track: Some Questions to Ask Early
- Evaluation Criteria at Liberal Arts Colleges
- Oberlin College Faculty Guide
- Eastern Michigan University Handbook
Transitioning to a New Institutional Context
Underrepresented in Our Fields: Strategies for Faculty Success
What's It Like to Teach at a Community College?
- Positioning Yourself for a Job in a Two-Year College
- How the Job Search Differs at Community Colleges
- American Association of Community Colleges Fact Sheet
Writing CVs and Cover Letters for Academic Positions: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Fields
- Slides
- Search Committee Exercise
- Cover Letter Sample
- Cover Letter Sample
- Job Application Self-Analysis
- Why Your Job Cover Letter Sucks (and what you can do to fix it)
- Writing a Job Letter
- Dr. Karens Rules of the Academic CV
- Creating and Maintaining Your CV
- A Dozen Sentences That Should Appear In Your (Academic) Job Application Letter
- Understanding Cover Letters
- Above and Beyond (making your cover letter stand out for a teaching-focused institution)
Writing CVs and Cover Letters for Academic Positions: Social Sciences and Humanities
- Search Committee Exercise
- Cover Letter and CV Samples
- Job Application Self-Analysis
- Why Your Job Cover Letter Sucks
- Writing a Job Letter
- Dr. Karens Rules of the Academic CV
- Creating and Maintaining Your CV
- A Dozen Sentences That Should Appear In Your (Academic) Job Application Letter
- Understanding Cover Letters
- Above and Beyond (making your cover letter stand out for a teaching-focused institution)
Questions? Please contact pff-conf-2014@umich.edu.
