Getting Ready for an Academic Career:
Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Conference Handouts
Conference Agenda (.pdf)
Meggin
McIntosh's Plenary Address: Protect Your Time, Energy, and Attention...in
an Exacting Way
http://www.meggin.com/Michigan.php
Academic Job Search Strategies for International Graduate Students
- Faculty Job Search Tips (.pdf)
- Presentation Slides (pdf)
Developing your Teaching Philosophy
- Components of a Statement of Teaching Philosophy (.pdf)
- Getting Started on Your Teaching Philosophy (.pdf)
- Writing a Meaningful Statement of Teaching Philosophy (.pdf)
- Teaching Goals Inventory (.pdf)
- Writing and Evaluating a Statement of Teaching Philosophy (.pdf)
Getting Started with your C.V.
- C.V. Self Evaluation (.pdf)
- Getting Started with your C.V. Power Point (.pdf)
- The Academic Job Search Handbook by Julia Miller Vick and Jennifer S. Furlong
Fourth Edition
Paper 2008
ISBN 978-0-8122-2016-2 - Career Talk: Writing a Good Letter (http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2006/07/2006071201c.htm)
Additional Resources:
- Asking Appropriate Questions (.pdf)
- Interview Dos and Dont's (.pdf)
- Interviewing for the Academy (.pdf)
- Interview Questions - Academic Job Search (.pdf)
The Tenure-Track Process and Faculty Worklife
- Panel Agenda (.pdf)
- Carnegie Basic Classification (.pdf)
- Percentage Distribution of Higher Education Institutions (.pdf)
- Percentage of Faculty Time (.pdf)
- Quote from the U-M Faculty Work-Life Study (.pdf)
- Occasional paper No. 14 (.pdf)
- Work Time of Professionals (.pdf)
- Different Paths (.pdf)
- Scholarship Reconsidered by Ernest Boyer (.pdf)
- Criteria for Getting Tenure at Different Institutions (.pdf)
- EMU Evaluation Criteria and Procedures (.pdf)
- Sample Timetable for the Tenure Process at a Research University (.pdf)
- Sample Timetable for the Tenure Process at aLiberal Arts College (.pdf)
- Sample Timetable for the Tenure Process at aMaster's Institutiuon (.pdf)
- The Academic's Handbook (.pdf)
- Types of Faculty Positions (.pdf)
Dual Career Issues and Faculty Worklife Balance
- Biographies (.pdf)
- Lucas Wall Notes (,pdf)
- Higher Education Recruitment Commission
- UM Provost's Office, Dual Career Program at the University of Michigan
- Dual Career
Program at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
A Guide for Prospective or New Faculty Members and Their Partners(.pdf) - Schiebinger, L., Henderson, A.D., & Gilmartin, S.K. (2008). Dual-career academic couples: What universities need to know. Palo Alto, CA: Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University
Starting and Running a Research Lab
- Starting and Running a Research Lab (.pdf)
- Further Resources (.pdf)
What's It Like to Work Where There's a Teaching-Research Balance?
Enhancing Your C.V. and Writing Effective Cover Letters
- C.V. Self Evaluation (.pdf)
- Enhancing Your C.V. and Writing Effective Cover Letters Power Point (.pdf)
Hit the Ground Running with Your Academic Career
- Boice, Robert, "Quick Starters: New Faculty Who Succeed". New Directions for Teaching and Learning. 48, ( 1991): 110-121
- Quick Starters PowerPoint presentation (.pdf)
- Minute Papers (.pdf)
Negotiating an Academic Job Offer
- Strategies/Tips for Negotiating a Job Offer (.pdf)
- Further Resources for Negotiating an Academic Job Offer (.pdf)
Questions? Please contact Stiliana Milkova at 615-9281 or smilkova@umich.edu.

