Becoming a Professor is designed primarily for graduate and undergraduate students and others - instructors, lecturers and new tenure-track professors - contemplating careers as professors in post-secondary education at colleges, institutes, and universities. The book identifies kinds of higher education institutions, and types of teaching positions along with the nature of each position's responsibilities and advantages and disadvantages. It explains how graduate students can promote their future as faculty members while they are still in graduate school and suggests ways to find suitable faculty positions and succeed at the application and interview process. The book also addresses a range of other matters that influence careers in higher education once a candidate is hired in a faculty position - such matters as the tenure and promotion process and how to succeed in other aspects of the professorial role (research, service, teaching), and as well as how to avoid pitfalls (political and ethical aspects) in such positions.

PrefaceChapter 1: Higher Education's Significant ContextsPart I: Preparing to Become a Professor Chapter 2: Types of Higher Education Institutions Chapter 3: Types of Teaching PositionsChapter 4: Profiting from Graduate SchoolChapter 5: Search Committees, CVs, Interviews, and Job TalksPart II: On-the-Job: Research/Creativity, Teaching, and Service RolesChapter 6: Publishing, Performing, and ProductsChapter 7: TeachingChapter 8: Service ObligationsPart III: Influential IssuesChapter 9: Ethical and Legal MattersChapter 10: Professorial PoliticsChapter 11: Promotion and TenurePart IV: PostscriptChapter 12: The Future: Careers in Higher EducationReferencesIndex