Filled with advice from over fifty contributors, this revised and expanded edition of The Academic's Handbook guides academics at every career stage, whether they are first entering the job market or negotiating post-tenure challenges of accepting leadership and administrative roles.

Acknowledgments  ix Introduction / Lori Flores and Jocelyn Olcott  1 Part I. Your Career Arc from Grad School to Retirement 1. The Tenure-Track Job Search, Start to Finish / Karen Kelsky  9 2. Developing an Academic Identity: Lead with "You" / Yuridia Ramírez  18 3. How to Negotiate for a Higher Salary / Lori Flores and Jocelyn Olcott  24 4. Scholarship and Life off the Tenure Track / Bryan Pitts  28 5. The Danger of Doing Other Things: Why I'm a Scholar but Not an Academic / Cynthia R. Greenlee  32 6. From Contract to Tenure / Sylvanna M. Falcón  38 7. A Few Rules of Thumb about Conference Presentations and Invited Talks / Lori Flores and Jocelyn Olcott  45 8. Finding My Way in Academia: My Non-Tenure-Track Path to Success in Food Studies / Sarah Portnoy  47 9. Surviving the Dream / Sarah Deutsch  56 Part II. The Trinity of Academic Life: Research, Teaching, and Service 10. Applying Successfully for Grants and Fellowships / Miroslava Chávez-García, Luis Alvarez, and Ernesto Chávez  71 11. The Modern Research Library / David Hansen and Deborah Jakubs  82 12. Suggestions for Alleviating IRB Angst / James E. Sutton  95 13. Informed Consent and the Ethics of IRB Research: A Case Study of the Havasupai Tribe's Lawsuit against Genetic Research / Nanibaa' A. Garrison  103 14. Publishing Your Research / Rosanna Kathleen Olsen  109 15. Academic Book Publishing / Cathy N. Davidson and Ken Wissoker  118 16. Holding the Space: Reflections on Small-Class Teaching and Learning / Magdalena M¿czy¿ska  142 17. Teaching the Large Lecture / Genevieve Carpio and Neil K. Garg  156 18. Lessons from the #FergusonSyllabus / Marcia Chatelain  165 19. Creative Approaches to Student Assessment: Structure of an Interdisciplinary Group Project / Frederico Freitas, Brenda Elsey, Steven Alvarez, Jeremy Cruz, Romeo Guzmán, Sonia Hernández and Tiffany Jasmin González, Sheila McManus, Laura Portwood-Stacer, and Meghan Roberts  172 20. Technology in Teaching / Laura Harrison  181 21. Neurodiversity in the Classroom / John Elder Robison and Karin Wulf  189 22. "Typical Dreamer": Some Reflections on Teaching, Advising, and Advocating for Undocumented, Veteran, and Nontraditional Students / Eladio Bobadilla  193 23. Understanding Microaggressions / Antar Tichavakunda  203 24. Shifting Borders: Collaborative Teaching and Researching with Students on Latinx Roots in Oregon / Lynn Stephen  208 25. The Florida Prison Education Project / Keri Watson  217 26. So, You Want to Start a College-in-Prison Program? / Kathryn J. Fox  221 27. Service Learning: Doing Development in West Africa / Charles Piot  223 28. Mentoring for Success across the Academic Spectrum / Joy Gaston Gayles and Bridget Turner Kelly  232 29. Anonymous: Making the Best of a Peer Review / Sharon P. Holland  240 30. Questions to Ask Yourself about Requests for Service / Lori Flores and Jocelyn Olcott  247 Part III. Issues in Today's Academy 31. Navigating Social Media as an Academic / Natalia Mehlman Petrzela  255 32. My Social Media Philosophy in (Roughly) One Thousand Words / N. D. B. Connolly  258 33. Moving beyond Student Teaching Evaluations / Michelle Falkoff  261 34. Work-Family Balance in Academia / Lauren Hall-Lew and Heidi Harley  265 35. Ableism in the Academy—It's What's for Breakfast / Stephen Kuusisto  272 36. Free Speech and Academic Freedom / Matthew W. Finkin  274 37. Contingency / Cary Nelson  285 38. The Corporate University in the Age of Trump / David Schultz  295 39. Making Campus Safer: Academics Fighting Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment / Elizabeth Quay Hutchison  302 40. Decolonizing and Building Community / Kelly Fayard  318 Contributors  323 Index  331