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July 3, 2025
Demystifying The Profession: Helping Junior Faculty Succeed
- Author
- Moody, Joann
- Publisher
- University of New Haven Press, West Haven, CT
- ISBN
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- Table of Contents
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From the Publisher
Practical, evidence-based tips for balancing teaching, scholarly writing, and service (and a life!) Research on the effects of mentoring is presented. In addition, it presents results of a study on classroom incivilities and ways in which new faculty members minimize their occurence.
The aims of this publication are:
- Demystify certain parts of the academic careers that typically bewilder or confuse junior faculty as well as graduate students considering such careers
- Coach junior and future faculty in concrete ways so they can increase their likelihood of success in and enjoying of the profession
- Spotlight and tell the truth about the special burdens and 'taxes' imposed on non-majority faculty in majority settings (the burdens and taxes are usually related to perceived differences because of the non-majority person's gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual preference, and/or social class)
- Prompt senior faculty, department chairs, deans, provosts, and campus vice presidents and presidents so they better understand the stresses and confusions experienced by majority and non-majority junior faculty; and then, based on that understanding, they take pro-active steps to reduce barriers for newcomers and clue them in to implicit agendas and expectations. (From the Publisher)
- Demystify certain parts of the academic careers that typically bewilder or confuse junior faculty as well as graduate students considering such careers
- Coach junior and future faculty in concrete ways so they can increase their likelihood of success in and enjoying of the profession
- Spotlight and tell the truth about the special burdens and 'taxes' imposed on non-majority faculty in majority settings (the burdens and taxes are usually related to perceived differences because of the non-majority person's gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual preference, and/or social class)
- Prompt senior faculty, department chairs, deans, provosts, and campus vice presidents and presidents so they better understand the stresses and confusions experienced by majority and non-majority junior faculty; and then, based on that understanding, they take pro-active steps to reduce barriers for newcomers and clue them in to implicit agendas and expectations. (From the Publisher)