Your first years as a faculty member can be disconcerting as you're thrown into new situations. The following articles are specially chosen by and from the Chronicle of Higher Education to help new faculty deal with the duties of life in academia. Each article is a quick read. Read one or two at a time to get a better hold on your new job.
Articles about faculty life, in general
- 'You're Hired!' Great. Now What?
- Week One on the New Job
- The Missing Campus Map
- The Loneliest Faculty Orientation Table
- My First Semester on the Tenure track
- This is How a Scholar Behaves in the Classroom
- Good Deeds That Are Most Punished: Research
- Good Deeds That Are Most Punished: Teaching
- Good Deeds That Are Most Punished: Service
- How to Develop a Trusted Senior Colleague
- The 21st-Century Academic
- How do you start acquiring leadership skills?
Articles about teaching
- The 4 Properties of Powerful Teachers
- When Will we Talk About the Syllabus? (Messages to Send on the First Day of Class)
- Small Changes in Teaching: The First Five Minutes of Class
- All the Classroom's a Stage
- A New Generation of Digital Distraction
- Playing With Technology
- Knowing When to Teach Current Events
- Teaching the Art of the Difficult Classroom Conversation
- What Professors Can Learn About Teaching From Their Students
