Academic Job Search Resources

Academic Job Search Bibliography

Boufis, C. & Olsen, V. C. (eds.) (1997). On the Market: Surviving the Academic Job Search. Riverhead Books.

Formo, D. M. & Sterling, C. R. (1999). Job Search in Academe: Strategic Rhetorics for Faculty Job Candidates. VA: Stylus.

Heiberger, M. M. & Vick, J. M. (2002). The Academic Job Search Handbook (3rd Edition). Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Sowers-Hoag, K. &. Harrison, D. F. (1998). Finding An Academic Job. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA.

Toth, E. (1997). Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia. University of Pennsylvania Press.

First person accounts of the job search — http://chronicle.com/jobs/2001/10/2001101201c.htm
U of M's Postdoctoral Affairs job searching resources in and out of academe — http://www.grad.umn.edu/postdoctoral_affairs/professional_development/job_searching.html
Negotiating the non-tenure track — http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2005/11/2005110801c/careers.html
University of Michigan Career Center: Services for Graduate Students — http://www.careercenter.umich.edu/students/gradservices/index.html
English M.A.s and Ph.D.s academic job search — http://www.english.uga.edu/gradeng/jobs/academic.html
Developing yourself as a professional (Virginia Tech) — http://www.career.vt.edu/GraduateStudents/Academic.htm
What You Need to Know About Graduate School (written by an associate professor of developmental psychology) — http://gradschool.about.com/cs/academicsearch
Carnegie Mellon Career Center — http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/career/CareerBriefs/academic.doc
University of Illiniois Academic and Non-Academic Job Search Resources for Graduate Students — http://www.grad.uiuc.edu/CareerServices/

Spertus, E. (2000). Tips for a Massive Academic Job Search — http://people.mills.edu/spertus/job-search/job.html
Rishel, T. W. (1998). The Academic Job Search in Mathematics, Mathematical Association of America — http://www.ams.org/employment/academic-job-search.html
Fant, G. C., Jr. (January 19, 2001) "'What If I've Never Heard of This Place?' A 30-Minute Internet Search for Job Seekers." The Chronicle of Higher Education. http://chronicle.com/jobs/2001/01/2001011903c.htm

Carroll, J. (2002). “Getting Started as an Adjunct.” Chronicle of Higher Education 9/3/02: http://chronicle.com/jobs/2002/09/2002093001c.htm
McClain, L. T. (2003).“Working Part-Time by Choice.” Chronicle of Higher Education 9/29/03: http://chronicle.com/jobs/2003/09/2003092901c.htm

POD Network (2002). “What is Faculty Development?” Read Overview, Definitions, and Program Types, and browse The Value of a Teaching Center: http://www.podnetwork.org/development.htm
Simmons, C. M. (2002). “What is Student Affairs Anyway? Getting into the Field as a New Student and a New Professional:” http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~youngb/What Is Student Affairs Anyway_files/frame.htm
Love, P. (2003). “Considering a Career in Student Affairs:” http://www.acpa.nche.edu/c12/career.htm
Lander, N. (2003). “Exploring the World of Student Affairs Administration:” http://www.bsu.edu/web/nplander/exploring_student_affairs_administration.html

Trina Sego and Jef I. Richards, Ph.D. Interview Preparation Guide for Positions in Academia — http://advertising.utexas.edu/JR/InterviewPrep.html
Interviewing for a Faculty Position — http://www.grad.umn.edu/gsss/
U of MN Graduate School Interviewing Resources — http://www.grad.umn.edu/postdoctoral_affairs/professional_development/job_searching.html

Trower, C. (2001). “Negotiating the Non-Tenure Track.” Chronicle of Higher Education 7/6/01: http://chronicle.com/jobs/2001/07/2001070601c.htm
"Negotiation Tactics and Strategies"; "Nine Key Negotiating Points"; and "Negotiation Role-Play" by Vid Mohan-Ram on http://nextwave.sciencemag.org (3/10/00).
"Getting (Most of) What You Want" by Mary Morris Heiberger and Julia Miller Vick on http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/ (1/26/01).
"Women and Minorities Negotiating Salaries" by Lee B. Kass and Kathleen Gale on http://nextwave.sciencemag.org (27 September 2002).
"The Right Start-Up Package for Beginning Science Professors" by Richard M. Reis on http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/ (8/27/99).
"A Few Perks No One Told Me About" by James M. Lang on http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/ (3/25/02).

Building Diversity into Your Teaching Portfolio, University of Washington Curriculum Transformation Project — http://depts.washington.edu/ctp/TADiversityPortfolio.PDF
For information about developing specific portfolio components see: http://ftad.osu.edu/portfolio/

Teaching Philosophies: Examples from the University of Pennsylvania — http://www.ctl.sas.upenn.edu/tools/philos.html
Ohio State University's teaching philosophy resources include development information and samples — http://ftad.osu.edu/portfolio/philosophy/Philosophy.html
From Iowa State University's Center for Teaching Excellence — http://www.celt.iastate.edu/teaching/philosophy.html
Univeristy of Michigan Center for Teaching — http://www.crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/tstpts.html
University of California Berkeley — http://career.berkeley.edu/PhDs/PhDportfolio.stm

Sample research statement from Iowa State University?s College of Business — http://www.bus.iastate.edu/jmcelroy/researchstmt.asp
Detailed sample research statement from Cal Tech (in PDF format) — http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~baksoylu/research/research.pdf