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Book SynopsisStudents and professors too often ignore suggestions that would have prevented them from becoming academic roadkill, This essential book will help readers sidestep a similar fate.
Trade ReviewKrieger certainly knows his way around the halls of academia. Pulling content from his blog on this topic, he counsels everyone from graduate students to untenured and tenured faculty to university administrators on how to navigate their scholarly aspirations. The tone is inviting and intimate. . . . Anyone interested in or connected to the world of academic scholarship will discover here solid, considered, and instructive strategies to walking those hallowed hallways.
* Library Journal *
Krieger has compiled many of his blog posts into an astute handbook that would make a perfect gift for the academics on your list—from grad student to department chair—or even for yourself.
* sciencemag.org *
Krieger's book is as motivational and philosophical as it is practical.
* Journal of Scholarly Publishing *
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
A Way into This Guide
Glossary
Chapter 1. Graduate School (Essays #1-54)
Chapter 2. Writing (#55-95)
Chapter 3. Getting Done (#96-112)
Chapter 4. Getting the First Job (#113-150)
Chapter 5. Junior and Probationary Faculty (#151-174)
Chapter 6. Grants, Fellowships, and Other Pecuniary Resources (#175-183)
Chapter 7. Your Career (#184-219)
Chapter 8. Tenure and Promotion (#220-290)
Chapter 9. After Tenure—Associate and Full Professorship (#291-307)
Chapter 10. Scholarly and Academic Ethos (#308-391)
Chapter 11. Stronger Faculties and Stronger Institutions (#392-420)
