Useful Websites - Academic Career Path

Journals/Information Resources - Academic Career Path

The following journals can be accessed electronically through the University of Michigan library at http://www.lib.umich.edu/ejournals/:

Books/Articles - Academic Career Path

Altbach, P., Berdahl, R., & Gumport, P. (Eds.), American higher education in the twenty-first century. Baltimore, MA: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Ambrose, S., Lazarus, B. and Ritter, L., The Woman's Guide to Navigating the Ph.D in Engineering and Science, IEEE Press, 2001.

Beidler, P. G. (Ed.), Distinguished teachers on effective teaching. In New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 28. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Boice, R. (1991). Quick starters: New faculty who succeed. In M. Theall & J. Franklin (Eds.), Effective practices for improving teaching (pp. 111-121). New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 48. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Breneman, D. W. (1994). Liberal arts colleges: Thriving, surviving, or endangered? Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.

Brent, R. & Felder, R. M. (Summer 1998). The new faculty member. Chemical Engineering Education, 32(3), 46-47.

Chism, N.V.N. (1997-1998). Developing a philosophy of teaching statement. Essays on teaching excellence: Towards the best in the academy, 9(3). Athens, GA: New Forums Press and the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education.

Cohen, Allan R. & Bradford, David L. Influence withut Authority New York: John Wiley @Sons, 1991. (describes exchange theory, including becoming a partner with your boss.

Cohen, A., & Brawer, F. (1996). The American community college. San Francisco: Jossey- Bass.

Coppola, B. (2000). How to write a teaching philosophy for academic employment. American Chemical Society, Department of Career Services Bulletin.

Crowe, Sandra A. Since Strangling Isn't an Option. New York: Penguin Putnam, 1999.

Delucci, M. (1997). "Liberal arts" colleges and the myth of uniqueness. Journal of Higher Education, 68, 414-426.

Edgerton, R., Hutchings, P., Quinlan, K. (Eds.) (1991). The teaching portfolio: Capturing the scholarship of teaching. Washington, DC: American Association of Higher Education.

Fisher, Roger & Ury, William. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In. New York: Penguin, 1991. (classic text on negotiation)

Formo, D. M., & Reed, C. (1999). Job search in academe: Strategic rhetorics for faculty job candidates. Sterling, VA: Stylus. (for job searchers from all fields)

Harvard Business Review on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2000.

Heim, Pat & Murphy, Susan. In the Company of Women: Turning Workplace Conflict into Powerful Alliances. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam. (addresses special concerns for women in the workplace)

Kennedy, D. (1997). Academic duty. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Kernan, A. (1999). In Plato's cave. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Levine, A. (1997). How the academic profession is changing. The American academic profession. [Special issue.] In Daedalus, 126(4).

Morey, A. I. & Kitano, M. K. (Eds.), Multicultural course transformation in higher education: A broader truth. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.

Rossiter, M. W. (1982). Women scientists in America: Struggles and strategies to 1940. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Schoenfeld, A. C., & Magnan, R. (1993). Mentor in a manual: Climbing the academicladder to tenure. Madison, WI: Magna Publications.

Silberman, Mel. People Smart. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2000.

Stone, Douglas, Patton, Bruce, & Heen, Sheila. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most. New York: Penguin, 1999. (deals with underlying structure of difficult conversations at work and in other relationships; provides guidance on handling strong emotions)

Taylor (Eds.), Rhythms of academic life: Personal accounts of careers in academia. Foundations for organizational science. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Ury, William. Getting Past No: Negotiating Your Way from Confrontation to Cooperation. New York: Bantam Doubleday, 1993.

Valian, V. (1999). Women in academia. In Why so slow? The advancement of women. Cambridge: MIT Press

Weeks, Dudley. The Eight Essential Steps to Conflict Resolution. New York: Penguin Putnam, 1994.

Whicker, M. L., Kronenfeld, J. J., & Strickland, R. A. (1996). Getting tenure. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications. (for faculty in science & engineering)