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Preparing Future Faculty: GS 650 (Spring 2013)

Syllabus

Working Schedule (updated periodically)

Disciplines represented in current class

Results of Pre-Course Survey About Faculty Career Expectations and Preferences

PFF Mentee & Mentor Responsibilities

CPE List of (and Links to) Postsecondary Institutions in Kentucky

Institutional Fit Rubric

PowerPoints and PDFs (others will be added as semester progresses)

1. American Higher Education over Four Centuries (Dr. John Thelin)
2. Selected National PFF slides
3. Overview of American Higher Education Institutional Types
4. Highlights from “What Colleges and Universities Want in New Faculty”
5. Tables from ANAC Survey of New Faculty
6. Advice on Building the Curriculum Vitae
7. Advice on Writing Faculty Application Letters, Teaching Philosophy Statements, and Research Statements
8. Tips for Constructing or Enhancing CVs

Resources

• Subscribe to Newsletter for Graduate Students (free from The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Subscribe to InsideHigherEd.com
• National PFF website
• 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
• Chronicle and AAUP's Faculty Salary Survey
• Selected Books on College & University Teaching
• AAUP's Policy Documents and Reports (the "Redbook")
• Voluntary System of Accountability (College Portraits)
• University of Kentucky: Original Top Twenty Business Plan Powerpoint Presentation, 2005
• University of Kentucky: Top Twenty Plan, Full Version
• University of Kentucky's Benchmark Institutions
• AAUP's What Do Faculty Do?
• AAUP's 2010-2011 Report on the Economic Status of the Profession
• Faculty Salary Data (2011-2012)
• Chronicle of Higher Education's Almanac 2011-- Kentucky

  Recommended Readings

  • "Expecations and Reality in American Higher Education" by John R. Thelin (Available online courtesy of John R. Thelin and The NEA Higher Education Journal)
  • "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 2009-2014 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)

    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

     

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