Preparing Future Faculty
Preparing Future Faculty: GS 650
PowerPoints and PDFs (others may be added as semester progresses)
- Selected National PFF slides
- Overview of American Higher Education Institutional Types
- Highlights from “What Colleges and Universities Want in New Faculty”
- Tables from ANAC Survey of New Faculty
- Advice on Building the Curriculum Vitae
- Advice on Writing Faculty Application Letters, Teaching Philosophy Statements, and Research Statements
- The CV & Letter of Application (From Univ. of Chicago's Career Advising & Planning Services)
- Grading Rubric for Letter and CV
- Distilling the Message (Stony Brook University)
Resources
- 20-Minute Mentor Commons
- Subscribe to InsideHigherEd.com
- Local PFF website
- UK Graduate Certificate in College Teaching and Learning
- Carnegie Foundation Classification System
- Association of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities (AIKCU)
- Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS)
- Kentucky Council on Post-Secondary Education (CPE)
- Appalachian College Association (ACA)
- The Chronicle of Higher Education
- HigherEdJobs.com
- Selected Books on College & University Teaching
- AAUP's Policy Documents and Reports (the "Redbook")
- Voluntary System of Accountability (College Portraits)
- AAUP's What Do Faculty Do?
- AAUP's 2016-2017 Report on the Economic Status of the Profession
- Download Vitae's free Guidebook on the Academic Job Search
Recommended Reading
- "Expectations and Reality in American Higher Education" by John R. Thelin (Available online courtesy of John R. Thelin and The NEA Higher Education Journal)
- "Beyond the Rhetoric: Trends in the Relative Value of Teaching and Research in Faculty Salaries" by James Steven Fairweather (Available online courtesy of The Journal of Higher Education and Project Muse)
- "An Examination of the Changing Faculty: Ensuring Institutional Quality and Achieving Desired Student Learning Outcomes" by Adrianna Kezar and Daniel Maxey (Available courtesy of the Council of Higher Education Accreditation)
- "Small Is . . . Different: A Guide to Newcomers to Small Colleges" by Samuel Schuman. A chapter in The Academic's Handbook, 3rd edition, edited by A. Leigh Deneef and Craufurd Goodwin (Duke UP, 2007)
- "The Ivory Sweatshop: Adademe is No Longer a Convivial Refuge" by Robin Wilson (Available online courtesy of The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- "The Work of the People's University" (State Comprehensive Universities) by Bruce B. Henderson (Available online courtesy of Teacher-Scholar: The Journal of the State Comprehensive University)
- Chapter 2 of Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate by Ernest Boyer (The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching)
- "Conceptualizing the Academic Life: Graduate Students' Perspectives" by Jeffery P. Bieber and Linda K. Worley (Available online courtesy of The Journal of Higher Education)
- The University of Kentucky's 2015-2020 Strategic Plan
- National PFF Brochure (Available online courtesy of The Council of Graduate Schools and Association of American Colleges and Universities)
- "What Colleges and Universities Want in New Faculty" by Kathrynn A. Adams (Available online courtesy of AAC&U)
- "The Preparing Future Faculty Program: What Difference Does it Make?" by A. Leigh DeNeef (Available online courtesy of AAC&U)
- "Perceptions of Early Career Faculty: Managing the Transition from Graduate School to the Professional Career" by Jerry Berberet (Available online courtesy of Associated New American Colleges and TIAA-CREF)
- "Grad Students Think Twice about Jobs in Academe" by Audrey Williams June
- "So You Want to Be a Social Work Educator? An Inside Look at an Academic Career" by David Royse (Available online courtesy of David Royse and Social Work Today)
- "Thriving at Liberal Arts Colleges: The More Compleat Academic" by Dana S. Dunn and Stacey B. Zaremba (Teaching of Psychology, 1997)
- "The 'Be Yourself' Myth" by Karen Kelsky (Available at InsideHigherEd.com)
- "College at Risk" by Andrew Delbanco (Available at The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- "Big Research, Small College" by Karen M. Markin (Available at The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- "A Research Career at a Liberal Arts College" by Kristen Ghodsee (Available at The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- "What's Good About Small Colleges" by David Evans (Available at The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- "It's the Community College Life for Me" by Ellen Olmstead (Available at The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- "Do You Belong at a Community College?" by Julie Vick and Jennifer S. Furlong (Available at The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- "The Community College Interview: What Not to Do" by Rob Jenkins (Available at The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- "The Rhetoric of the CV" by Joshua R. Eyler (Available at The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- "The Professor Is In: A First-Timer on the Job Market?" by Karen Kelsky (Available at Vitae)
- "Applying to a Public Regional University?" by Paula Krebs (Available at Vitae)
Links may be added as the semester progresses.
Questions? Contact Dr. Morris A. Grubbs at morris.grubbs@uky.edu (859-257-9725), 103 Gillis Building, 40506-0033