Life on the Tenure Track: Lessons from the First Year
by James M. Lang
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Author: James M. LangEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-04-06
ISBN: 080188103X
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Book Review: Nice Counterpoint to All the Advice Books
Summary: 5 Stars
I've never reviewed a book on Amazon before, but I really want to recommend this one. If you're headed toward the tenure track, or are even thinking about it, you should read this book. It's served as a nice counterpoint to all the advice books I've been reading lately. While those other books have been really helpful to me, this one's helpful in a different way--it shows rather than tells. It also helps remind me that things don't always come off well, despite our best intentions, and it's all too easy to ignore/forget good advice under pressure. Academic life is not all that it's cracked up to be, it can be a real grind, but it's still got plenty to recommend it, and Lang's painfully honest account reminds me to count my blessings. A bad academic job is better than many good non-academic ones. I'm recommending "Life on the Tenure Track" to my fellow grad students, and also to undergrads who have romantic aspirations for the professoriate.
Summary of Life on the Tenure Track: Lessons from the First Year
In this fast-paced and lively account, Jim Lang asks?and mostly answers?the questions that confront every new faculty member as well as those who dream of becoming new faculty members: Will my students like me? Will my teaching schedule allow me time to do research and write? Do I really want to spend the rest of my life in this profession? Is anyone awake in the backrow?
Lang narrates the story of his first year on the tenure track with wit and wisdom, detailing his moments of confusion, frustration, and even elation?in the classroom, at his writing desk, during his office hours, in departmental meetings?as well as his insights into the lives and working conditions of faculty in higher education today. Engaging and accessible, Life on the Tenure Track will delight and enlighten faculty, graduate students, and administrators alike.
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