The Academic's Handbook. Second Edition.

Sonst. Personen	DeNeef, A. Leigh (Hrsg.); Goodwin, Craufurd D. (Hrsg.)
Titel	The Academic's Handbook. Second Edition.
Quelle	(1995), (348 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	0-8223-1661-7
Schlagwörter	Leitfaden; Academic Advising; Academic Freedom; Beginning Teachers; College Faculty; College Instruction; College Students; Departments; Discussion (Teaching Technique); Educational Trends; Electronic Publishing; Faculty Publishing; Females; Financial Support; Fund Raising; Governance; Higher Education; Institutional Characteristics; Job Satisfaction; Job Search Methods; Job Skills; Labor Market; Lecture Method; Minority Group Teachers; Politics of Education; Publish or Perish Issue; Research; Research Projects; Selective Admission; Sexual Harassment; Teacher Salaries; Tenure; Women Faculty; Work Environment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Akademischer Rat; Akademische Freiheit; Junior teacher; Junglehrer; Fakultät; Hochschullehre; Collegestudent; Department; Abteilung; Bildungsentwicklung; Elektronisches Publizieren; Weibliches Geschlecht; Finanzielle Förderung; Fundraising; Spendensammlung; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Arbeitsplatzsuchtheorie; Produktive Fertigkeit; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Forschung; Forschungsvorhaben; Bildungsselektion; Sexuelle Belästigung; Lehrerbesoldung; Lehrervergütung; Amtszeit; Beschäftigungsdauer; Frauenakademie; Weibliche Gelehrte; Arbeitsmilieu
Abstract	This book's 29 chapters by various authors are designed to provide immediately useful advice for college and university teachers concerning current higher education issues, employment, teaching and advising, funding research, publishing research, and academic communities and administrations, The chapters are: "A Taxonomy of Colleges and Universities" (Robert F. Gleckner); "Small Is...Different" (Samuel Schuman); "The Morality of Teaching" (Stanley M. Hauerwas); "Women in Academia" (Emily Toth); "Minority Faculty in [Mainstream White] Academia" (Nellie Y. McKay); "On Being a Political Animal in the Academic Zoo" (Peter Burian); "Fads and Fashions on Campus: Interdisciplinarity and Internationalization" (Craufurd D. Goodwin); "Free Speech and Academic Freedom" (Ronald R. Butters);"Anticipating and Avoiding Misperceptions of Harassment" (Judith S. White); "The Responsible Conduct of Academic Research" (P. Aarne Vesilind); "On Getting a Job" (Henry M. Wilbur); "The Job Market: An Overview" (Sudhir Shetty); "The Tenure System" (Matthew W. Finkin); "Some Tips on Getting Tenure" (Craufurd D. Goodwin); "Academic Salaries, Benefits, and Taxes" (A. Leigh DeNeef); "The Nuts and Bolts of Running a Lecture Course" (Norman L. Christensen); "Why I Teach by Discussion" (Anne Firor Scott); "The Classroom Climate: Chilly for Women?" (Bernice R. Sandler); "New Faculty Members and Advising" (Elizabeth Studley Nathans); "The Problems of Special Admission Undergraduates" (Ronald R. Butters and Christopher B. Kennedy); "Securing Funding from Federal Sources" (Judith K. Argon); "New Academics and the Quest for Private Funds" (Fred E. Crossland); "On Writing Scholarly Articles" (Louis J. Budd); "Publishing in Science" (Boyd R. Strain); "The Scholar and the Art of Publishing" (Richard C. Rowson); "Effects of the Networked Environment on Publishing and Scholarship" (Jerry D. Campbell); "University Governance and Autonomy: Who Decides What in the University" (A. Kenneth Pye); "The Role of the Department in the Groves of Academe" (Joel Colton); and "The Academic Community" (Philip Stewart). Includes an index, information on contributors and a list of selected readings. Many chapters contain extensive references. The list of selected readings contains 35 references. (JB)
Anmerkungen	Duke University Press, Box 90660, Durham, NC 27708-0660 (paperback: ISBN-0-8223-1673-0, $17.95; hardback: ISBN-0-8223-1661-7, $47.95).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC