The Compleat Academic Chapter 1~11 Edward Huang. Agenda Welcome to the PhD Program Need a Job...

The Compleat AcademicChapter 1~11

Edward Huang

Agenda

Welcome to the PhD Program Need a Job Surviving Skills

Teaching Researching Writing

Show Me the Money

A Guide to PhD Graduate School – How They Keep Score in the Big Leagues

What we should know Rules changes

Learn What -> learn How Faculty members wants to show you How to do research and

scholarship You don’t have to be a genius, but you have to be motivated

What we should do You are your vita.

The most important line – Publications Starting at day one.

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After Graduate School – A Faculty Position or Postdoctoral Fellowship

Attractions Enhanced Marketability Broadening your research

domain Facilitating the transition

from dependence to independence

Developing scientific skills Balancing personal and

professional goals Research Utopia

Disadvantages You cannot be your own

boss Not a fast-track career Short-term appointment Financial support

The Hiring Process in Academia

Job Search Networks

Materials References Research plan Teaching experience and evaluation

Preparation Travel plan Learn about them What to talk

Job Search Networks

Materials References Research plan Teaching experience and evaluation

Preparation Travel plan Learn about them What to talk

PreparationPreparation

Don’t set limitations

Vita Publications

DecisionDecision

Wait Make decision Take the offer

Wait Make decision Take the offer

VisitVisit

The talk

Idv. Meeting Get answers

The talk

Idv. Meeting Get answers

45 mins Your classification 5 mins drill Teaching

Jobs Outsides of Academia

Job opportunities Private company, Government, Self-employed

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Tips for Effective Teaching

Preparing your courses Goal setting Choosing a textbook Creating a syllabus Evaluating student performance

Matching evaluation tool to your goal Applying the psychology of learning to student evaluation

5 Minute University Long-term retention can be improved by helping students

Engage in numerous study sessions Realize what they really know Retrieve past and current course material and present them randomly

more exams!!more exams!!more exams!!

Tips for Effective Teaching

Preparing your courses Setting up a grading system

Accurate, fair, consistently Establishing student communication channels

Office hour, email

Others Developing your teaching style

Be yourself as long as you care about teaching Faculty-Student relationships Assessing and improving your teaching

Setting Up Your Lab and Beginning a Program of Research

Analyzing Your Situation Is research possible?

Hire work-study students Do the basic research with good ideas (no tool needed) Review paper Find available supports from other institutions

Start-up Package Making your decisions Investing to the most important things Saving money for later

Starting a small lab first

Setting Up Your Lab and Beginning a Program of Research

Features of a strong junior faculty research program Collaborate with your mentor Develop independent research Keep developing your PhD research track Integration Write it up

General principles Make the most of what you have Invest your resources Invest your time wisely Collaborate

Writing the Empirical Journal Articles

Analyze data first and then report your findings How should you write

Accuracy and clarity Good organization and standard format Write simply and directly

Good writing is good teaching

Writing the Empirical Journal Articles

Shape of an articleIntroductions

Literature Review

System Design and Results

Discuss Section

Future Research

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Obtaining a Research Grant

Why should you apply for a grand? To do research To support students To free your responsibility To pay summer salary To obtain tenure

Who fund research? Government, universities, businesses, organizations,

and foundations


Finding your funders Choose ideas carefully Think broadly about the applications of your work Call the relevant program officers

Marketing your research idea Get more advice Make the most rumors Hedge your bets Road less traveled

Preparing irresistible applications Staffing Clarify, Clarify, Clarify

Peer Review & Aftermath Revise and resubmit?


Process of getting funded Think up an idea Operationalize the idea Find out who might be interested in your idea Write your proposal Solicit feedback on your proposal Get the proposal approved by your institution Send out the proposal on time Revise the proposal, if necessary; otherwise, abandon it by now Resubmit and explain what you have changed Get funded, or if not, start over

The Compleat Academic

LI FAN

Power, Politics, and Survival in Academia

Research university– More than $20 million of federal research

expenditures in a year

Doctoral/Research universities – extensive– Award 50 or more doctoral degrees per year across

at least 15 disciplines

Doctoral/Research universities – intensive – Award at least 10 doctoral degrees per year across

three or more discipline, or at least 20 doctoral degrees per year overall

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Power, Politics, and Survival in Academia

Power and Money– Power is money and money is power– Faculty who can generate large amounts of

grant money are powerful– Teaching is a local market and research is a

national market Department’s power

– Power in a department rests with a department’s faculty, or at least some of them( Head, Chair, Senior Prof.)

– Relationship between Head and Junior Prof. (Child and Parents)


Managing the Dep. chair and navigating the Dep. power structure

Follow the leader– Identify who is the leader– Chair is the administration representative– Head is viewed as an agent of the university

management Becoming known and well-known

– Make yourself available (Spend more time in office, Have lunches together, Attend department events)

– Make yourself valuable (Teach, Research, Service)

– What would the department lose if you left?


The Dialectics of Race: Academic Perils and Promises

A cultural competence approach– Possessing a strong personal identity– Having knowledge and facility with the

culture’s beliefs and values– Displaying appropriate sensitivity to affective

processes– Communicating clearly in the language of the

culture– Maintaining active social relations with the

group


Women in Academia Women in psychology Department

– 1920-1974: 23% vs. 1996: 66%– Still small number of tenured women

Some major issues – Self-Presentation (Smart, Productive or Kind,

Quietly? Only the first set will get you tenured)– Family Issues (When to have children)– Is Academia right for You?


Varieties of College and University Experiences

Types of Departments– Large vs. Small– Pure vs. Mixed– Mature vs. Immature

The Department Culture Effects the New Faculty Member– Academic and Social Climate– Resources Availability

Which one fit you better?


Keeping Your Edge: Managing Your Career Over Time

Getting Started– Managing Your Teaching Load

Get guest lecturers, TAs– Administrative Work– You Remember Research?

You do not have to go on your thesis topic Working on new area Reading: Staying on Top of the Field

– Learn from faculty colleagues– Do not say ‘Yes’ to everything



Hitting Your Stride– You should carve out your own field– Getting reviews and providing reviews– Self-promotion

Send out the paper you are proud of Increase the chance people will read your paper

– Dealing with the press– Dealing with student

Impose limitation on the number of student you supervise

– Make some money if you need Write books or teach in summer school



Hitting Your Stride– Manage your time

Pick your conference carefully Never read any email you do not have to

– Get rest and gain perspective (Sabbatical)– Enjoy private life

Hitting The Wall (And the Rest of the Race)– Beware of Curmudgeonly End– Keeping Your Career Vibrant

Branch into new field Create a new course


Managing Your Career: The Long View

Thinking About The Future– Short-Term Planning

Keep a to-do list– Medium-Term Goals

One semester? 6 months? One year? – Long-Range Goals

what you want to do with your whole academic life

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