Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) -- University  of Michigan

Getting Ready for an Academic Career: Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Conference

Handouts

Academic Job Search Strategies for International Graduate Students

• Job Search Strategies Handouts (.pdf)

Developing your Teaching Philosophy

• Developing Your Teaching Philosophy Overview (.pdf)
• Focusing Exercise (.pdf)
• Sample Teaching Philsophies
• Teaching Philosophy Rubric Voting Sheet (.pdf)
• Getting Started on Your Reflective Teaching Statement (.pdf)
• Teaching Philosophy Occasional Paper #23 (Available soon)

Dual Career Issues and Faculty Work-life Balance

• Goldin, C. (2006, March 15). Working it out. New York Times (.pdf)
• Panelist Bios (.pdf)

Enhancing Your C.V. and Writing Effective Cover Letters

• Critique your C.V. checklist (.pdf)
• Enhancing Your C.V. and Writing Effective Cover Letters (.pdf)
• Sample C.V.s & Cover Letters (.pdf)

Getting Started with your C.V.

• Critique your C.V. checklist (.pdf)
• Sample C.V.s & Cover Letters (.pdf)

Interviewing for the Academy

• Interviewing for the Academy (.pdf)
• Interview Questions - Academic Job Search (.pdf)

Managing Anxiety at Your Interviews

• Managing Anxiety Handouts (.pdf)

Practicing Interviews

• Observation Handout (.pdf)
• Resources on Answering and Asking Interview Questions (.pdf)

Negotiating an Academic Job Offer

• Strategies/Tips for Negotiating a Job Offer (.pdf)
• Further Resources for Negotiating an Academic Job Offer (.pdf)

Starting and Running a Research Lab

• Starting and Running a Research Lab (.pdf)

Tenure and Faculty Worklife

• Agenda (.pdf)
• The Carnegie Foundation of the advancement of Teaching "Basic Classification Description"
• Percentage Distribution of Higher Education Institutions by 2000 Carnegie Classification (.pdf)
• Percentage of Time Full-Time Postsecondary Faculty Spent on Various Activities (.pdf)
• The Importance of Teaching at a Research University (.pdf)
• Cook, C.E., Wright, M.C., & Hollenshead, C.S. (2000). More than a research university: The importance of teaching at the University of Michigan
• The Work Time of Professionals
• Different Research Paths to Tenure (.pdf)
• Boyer, E.L. (1997) Scholarship reconsidered: Priorities of the professoriate. Princeton, NJ: Carnegie Foundation for the advancement of teaching, pp. 17-24.
• Criteria for Getting Tenure at Different Types of Institutions (.pdf)
• Agreement between Eastern Michigan University and Eastern Michigan University American Association of University Professors (Please check back.)
• Sample Timetable for the Tenure and Promotion Process at a Research University (.pdf)
• Sample Timetable for the Tenure and Promotion Process at a Liberal Arts College (.pdf)
• Sample Timetable for the Tenure and Promotion Process at a Master's College (.pdf)
• Schurman, S. (1995). Small is....different. In A.L. DeNeef & C.D. Goodwin (Eds.), The academic's handbook. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
• Types of Faculty Positions (.pdf)
• Worklife and Work Style: Self Assessment (.pdf)

Questions? Please contact Mary Wright at 936-1135 or mcwright@umich.edu.

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