Faculty Career Paths Multiple Routes to Academic Success and Satisfaction

Subjects:

• Education » Higher Education

Reviews:

• Aimed at administrators in higher education, this volume examines the multiple career paths traversed by faculty and assesses the levels of satisfaction or dissatisfaction they experience along the way. The 29 contributions from North American faculty and administrators consider the impact of changing demographics (such as more dual-career couples) and describe the needs and expectations of faculty at particular stages of their careers. The material is based on national research as well as studies conducted within the 16-campus U. of North Carolina system.
  —Reference & Research Book News November 2006

• Endorsement From Christine M. Licata
  Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs
  Rochester Institute of Technology/NTID: Academic leaders and policymakers take note: Faculty Career Paths is a book you will want to read sooner rather than later. Bataille and Brown have combined their own considerable experience with informative research about the changing routes faculty take to enter the contemporary academic marketplace. In so doing, they capably raise the questions "Who is the new academy?" and "What factors influence individual career satisfaction and success"?... Each chapter includes compelling commentaries written by experienced practitioners, examples of best practice and concrete recommendations for how leaders and institutions can strategically improve hiring, retention, leadership and work-family practices in order to successfully attract, reward and retain quality faculty. Anyone working with faculty employment, development or retirement policies will find this book compulsory reading.
• Endorsement From Walter H. Gmelch
  Dean and Professor, School of Education
  University of San Francisco: Faculty Career Paths is a must read, not just for faculty but for all academic leaders--department chairs, deans, provosts and presidents. The comprehensiveness of the book takes the reader through "multiple routes" across the changing territory of faculty life from dual career couples and partner accommodations to family friendly practices. The authors also survey the terrain ahead, informing us of the challenges down the roads of technology, internationalization, collective bargaining, entrepreneurship and change itself. Bravo -- Bataille and Brown have enlightened the many paths academics travel from early to late career choices and ultimately into retirement.
• Endorsement From Thomas L. "Les" Purce
  President, The Evergreen State College: This book brings to a broad audience the importance of recognizing the role of administrators in developing policies and programs that support faculty in every kind of institution.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Conventional Assumptions and the Realities of Contemporary Faculty Life
• Chapter 1. Changing Demographics
• Chapter 2. Graduate Students and Post-doctoral Scholars: Meeting Faculty Supply
• Chapter 3. Expectations and Needs of Early Career Faculty
• Chapter 4. Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
• Chapter 5. Late Career Satisfaction
• Chapter 6. Leadership for a New Academic Environment: Developing Policy and Making Change
• Bibliography
• Additional Resources
• Author Bios
• Contributor Profiles