1. John M. Darley Mark P. Zanna Henry L. Roediger III
Gray Ross
The Compleat Academic
John M. Darley
Mark P. Zanna
Henry L. Roediger III
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2. A guide to PhD graduate school
PhD work varies drastically from graduate and undergraduate work
Undergraduate and graduate teaches facts
PhD teaches how
Motivation is the driving factor to success
Genius is not required
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3. What the faculty want from you?
Self-concept adjustment
Faculty show how to do research and scholarship
Self-esteem should be drawn from being a researcher and scholar
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4. Vita building Begin immediately on vita creation You are your vita
Not unusual to have a blank vita initially
Analyze once a month and decide how to improve the vita
Most effort should be spent in publications
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5. After Graduation: Faculty or Postdoc?
Advantages of a postdoc
Enhanced Marketability
Broadening your research domain
Facilitating the transition from dependence to independence
Developing scientific skills
Balancing personal and professional goals
Disadvantages of a postdoc
You cannot be your own boss
Not a fast-track career
Short-term appointment
Financial support
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6. Hiring process in academia
Your faculty references
Three recommendation letters
Find possible jobs
Do not let geographic or lifestyle preference rule out otherwise excellent jobs
The vita
Teaching experience and evaluation
A list of courses you could teach
Publications
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7. Before your visit Advanced travel plans
Research the institutions and the department before your visit
Find out before (or during the visit) as much as you can about the search process
The Talk preparation
What to talk about
Who will be the audience
Length and structure of the talk
Practice
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8. After the visit Time to receive word may be weeks if not months
Prompt delivery of material promised at the interview
Expenses and receipts delivered in timely manner to chair
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9. Tips for effective teaching
Save everything
Keep good records about how each class went
Create teaching forms for dealing with student excuses, complaints
Build a directory of useful phone numbers, addresses, and websites
Do not try to reinvent the wheel

10. Managing the faculty-graduate student relationship
Sources of research ideas in faculty-student collaborations
The number of research directions
Work with other faculty
How many students to advise

11. Setting Up Your Lab Determine Desired Lab Type General Principles
Start small and make sure your lab works with the people you have before adding more
Find out your own comfort zone (No. of people, projects, collaborator)
General Principles
Make the Most of What You Have
Invest Your Resources
Invest Your Time Wisely
Collaborate
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12. Obtaining a Research Grant
Advantages of a research grant
Provide funds to do your research
Help support students
Free you from responsibilities you wish to delegate to others
Provide summer salary
Mark you as a serious scholar and can help you when it comes times for promotion and tenure decisions.
Funding
Universities, governmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, foundations, and corporations
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13. Writing the empirical journal article
How should you write
First strive is accuracy and clarity
Good organization and standardized format
Write simply and directly
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14. Shape of an article The introduction The method section
Examples of examples,
The literature review
Citations
Criticizing previous work
The method section
Give your readers a feel for what it was like to be a participant
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15. Shape of an article The results section Setting the stage
Present evidence that your study successfully set up the conditions for testing your hypotheses or answering your questions.
The method of data analysis
Presenting the findings
Give the forest first, then the trees.
Figures and tables
On statistics
Every comparison between groups or relationship between variables should be accompanied by its level of statistical significance.
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16. Shape of an article 4. The discussion section
either be combined with the results section or appear separately
5. The title and abstract
Title: words, fully explanatory when standing alone
Abstract: not exceed 120 words. Be compact.
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17. Orientation to the academic environment
Doctoral/Research universities
Extensive - award 50 or more doctoral degrees per year across at least 15 disciplines
Intensive - award at least 10 doctoral degrees per year across three or more disciplin, or at least 20 doctoral degrees per year overall
Research university
It has more than $20 million of federal research expenditures in a year.
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18. Power, politics, and survival in academia
Power and money
In universities, faculty generate money by teaching (via tuition and state funding) and by research (grants)
Teaching is a local market and research is a national market.
Competition for the best faculty is intense, and faculty who generate large amounts of grant money are powerful on campus.
Power in a department rests with a department’s faculty, or at least some of them.
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19. Survival Make yourself valuable
Teach
Research
Service on university committees
“What would the department lose if you left?”
Self-defense
Hard-copies
Negative feedback early
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20. Diversity in academia Cultural competence approach (for minorities)
One can function effectively within a given culture by:
Possessing a strong personal identity
Having knowledge and facility with the culture’s beliefs and values
Communicating clearly in the language of the culture
Performing socially sanctioned behavior
Maintaining active social relations with the group
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21. Women in academia Presentation of Self Descriptive adjectives
Option 1 (tenure-bound): Smart, positive, productive, creative, a leader, firm, confident, and a great collaborator.
Option 2: Can count on, kind, quietly competent, warm, thoughtful.
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22. Women in academia Family Issues Stopping the Tenure Clock
Many colleges and universities now have the policies allowing women to stop the tenure clock if they have a child before tenure
You are Single With No Children
Focus and doing things the department values
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23. Varieties of college and university experiences
Types of departments
Small vs large
Pure vs mixed
Bereaucratic vs autonomous
Mature vs immature
Usefulness and limitations of departments as units
Faculty culture/climate of the department
Academic climate
Social climate
Administrative climate
Resources available
Expectations of faculty

24. Early-career Career plans: early career Publish papers Teach courses
Talk to people
Collaborate, but watch out
Keep up with your field
Go to national and specialty meetings
Be willing to perform service
Review papers
Learn to balance “yes” and “no” appropriately

25. Mid-career, late-career, and retirement
Career plans: Mid-career
Writing review papers
Writing books
Becoming involved in national organizations
Chair committees
Working as an administrator
Late-career direction
Do not stagnate on the job
Retirement: planning the end game