Academic Career Advice Articles and Session Handouts

UC President's Postdoctoral Fellows Program
Compiled by Otto Santa Ana & Vanessa Garcia
July 2006

Dissertation Writing:

1. Writing Your Dissertation, The Writing Center
2. Dissertation Proposal Workshop: Timeline
3. Writing Your Dissertation by: University of Berkeley The Graduate
4. The Dissertation Proposal: The Holy Grail
5. Overcoming Writer's Block
6. Dissertation Writing Strategies and Pitfalls (Fall Meetings 2003 and 2004)
7. Select Publishing Resources on the Internet

Post Doctoral Interlude:

1. Skills to Survive a Series of Postdocs
2. Postdoc for Humanists

Job Search:

1. Academic Job Application Checklist
2. Finding a Job: Beating the Odds
3. The Academic Job Search Process (Overview)
4. General Links About Academic Jobs
5. UC Davis Curriculum Vitae/Cover Letters
6. The Cost of Applying for Academic Jobs
7. Interviewing at a Teaching-Focused University
8. Getting Psyched Up for the Market
9. What You Don't Know About Cover Letters
10. So You Want to Be A Professor!
11. Applying for a Liberal Arts College Job
12. Career Network Bookshelf
13. Career Network Facts and Figures
14. Higher Education – The Job Search
15. Interviewing for a Faculty Position (University of Berkeley The Graduate.)
16. The Academic Job Search
17. Sample Curriculum Vitae
18. The Academic Interview by: Paula J. Gaus
19. Pre-Employment Inquiry Guidelines: 1996 ASCUS Annual
20. Finding A Job in Academia: One Student's Successful Strategy (The Berkeley Graduate)
21. The Academic Search Panel by: Sarah D. Gray

Job Search (for departments):

1. A Message to Hiring Committees

Negotiating your Academic Contract:

1. Negotiating the Job Offer
2. Negotiating Your First Faculty Position
3. After the Offer, Before the Deal: Negotiating A First Academic Job

Writing and Publishing:

1. Academic publishing: Oxford University Press Editorial Department
2. Academic Publishing Guide for Graduate Students in the Humanities and Social Sciences
3. Publish, Perish, and Points in Between
4. Checklist for Making a Dissertation into a Book
5. Sample book prospectus: Brown Tide Rising: Metaphors of Latinos in US Public Discourse
6. Sample book prospectus: Tongue-Tied: Multilingual Children in Public Education
7. Sample book contract: University of Texas Press Contract for Brown Tide Rising
8. Luey, Beth. Handbook for Academic Authors . Diagram
9. Writing Bibliographies

Grant Writing:

1. Dissertation Proposal Workshop, UCB Institute of International Studies
2. A Guide to Proposal Planning and Writing
3. The Making of A Successful Proposal: UC Berkeley's The Graduate
4. On the Art of Writing Proposals: Candid Suggestions for Social Science Research Council Competitions
5. Grant Writing in the Humanities (Fall Meeting September 19, 2003)
6. Debunking Some Myths About Grant Writing
7. Proposal Writer's Guide, University of Michigan
8. Submitting A Grant Proposal: Risks, Benefits, and How to Succeed
9. A Multiscale Combined Hybrid-MHD-Neutral Atom Code
10. On Being A Scientist: Responsible Conduct In Research
11. The Craft of Research: Writing Successful Science Proposals
12. Academic Grant-Writing Resources: UCOP 2005 Fall Meeting
13. National Science Foundation: NSF Grant Proposal Guide (GPG) (NSF 04-23)
14. Encouraging Young Scientists
15. Association for Women in Science Magazine (AWIS) (x2)
16. Project Summary
17. Grant Writing in the Social Sciences (Fall Meeting of the Dissertation: October 1, 2004)
18. The Interaction of Low-Frequency Turbulence with Collisionless Shock Waves
19. Grantsmanship President's Fellowship Program Retreat
20. General Outline of Problem Oriented Research Proposal
21. Writing advice from a seasoned Biostatistics Professor
22. An excellent video showing how real NIH grant applications are reviewed
23. And even more tips from NIH
24. More tips for grant writing from NIH
25. NIH's web site for new investigators
26. A step by step approach to writing a grant for a community agency
27. Updated NIH Criteria for the Evaluation of All Research Applications

Women of Color in Academia:

1. Lifting A Ton of Feathers
2. Chemist, Teacher, Scholar, Mentor : Women in Chemistry
3. Pregnant on the Job Market
4. Hispanic Women Make Their Presence on Campus Less Tenuous (Order Form)
5. Success and Survival Strategies for Women Faculty Members (Order Form)
6. Black Women in Academe: Issues and Strategies (Order Form)
7. Giving Birth in Graduate School
8. Easing the Grad-Student Baby Blues
9. Black and Female in the Academy

Supporting Women of Color in Academia:

1. Supporting Women and Minority Faculty

Teaching:

1. Teaching Grad Students
2. Careers: Pushing Grad Students Through to Completion

Family:

1. Study of Couples in Academe Finds Least Stress When Both Spouses Work At Same College
2. Higher Education Recruitment Consortium

Tenure:

1. Ensuring Fairness, Faculty Trust in Promotion and Tenure Practices
2. UC Committee on Academic Promotion Evaluation Procedures
3. Provost as Gatekeepers
4. LEAPing Through the Tenure Process: A New Style of Mentoring for Faculty of Color
5. Shameless Self-Promotion
6. Tenure-Track Bibliography