Skip Navigation

University Partnerships for Faculty Diversity - Postdoctoral Fellowships Programs

University of California / University of Michigan
President's and Chancellor's Postdoctoral
Fellowship Programs

Academic Career Advice Articles and Session Handouts

Dissertation Writing:

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

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 (pdf) (Overview)
  4. General Links About Academic Jobs (pdf)
  5. UC Davis Curriculum Vitae/Cover Letters (pdf)
  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! (pdf)
  11. Applying for a Liberal Arts College Job
  12. Career Network Bookshelf (pdf)
  13. What Professors Earn (pdf)
  14. Higher Education – The Job Search
  15. Interviewing for a Faculty Position (pdf) (UC Berkeley, The Graduate.)
  16. The Academic Job Search (pdf)
  17. Sample Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
  18. The Academic Interview by: Paula J. Gaus (pdf)
  19. Pre-Employment Inquiry Guidelines: 1996 ASCUS Annual (pdf)
  20. Finding A Job in Academia: One Student's Successful Strategy (pdf) (The Berkeley Graduate)
  21. The Academic Search Panel by: Sarah D. Gray (pdf)

Job Search (for departments):

  1. A Message to Hiring Committees

Negotiating your Academic Contract:

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

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 (pdf)
  6. Sample book prospectus: Tongue-Tied: Multilingual Children in Public Education (pdf)
  7. Sample book contract: University of Texas Press Contract for Brown Tide Rising (pdf)
  8. Luey, Beth. Handbook for Academic Authors . Diagram (pdf)
  9. Writing Bibliographies (pdf)
  10. An Editor's Book Publishing Tips for the Uninitiated (pdf)
  11. Tips for Book Proposals (pdf)

Grant Writing:

  1. Dissertation Proposal Workshop, UCB Institute of International Studies
  2. A Guide to Proposal Planning and Writing (pdf)
  3. The Making of A Successful Proposal: UC Berkeley's The Graduate (pdf)
  4. On the Art of Writing Proposals: Candid Suggestions for Social Science Research Council Competitions (pdf)
  5. Grant Writing in the Humanities (pdf) (Fall Meeting September 19, 2003)
  6. Debunking Some Myths About Grant Writing
  7. Proposal Writer's Guide, University of Michigan (pdf)
  8. Submitting A Grant Proposal: Risks, Benefits, and How to Succeed
  9. A Multiscale Combined Hybrid-MHD-Neutral Atom Code (pdf)
  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 (pdf)
  13. National Science Foundation: NSF Grant Proposal Guide (GPG) (NSF 04-23) (pdf)
  14. Encouraging Young Scientists (pdf)
  15. Association for Women in Science Magazine (AWIS) (x2) (pdf)
  16. Project Summary (pdf)
  17. Grant Writing in the Social Sciences (pdf) (Fall Meeting of the Dissertation: October 1, 2004)
  18. The Interaction of Low-Frequency Turbulence with Collisionless Shock Waves (pdf)
  19. Grantsmanship President's Fellowship Program Retreat (pdf)
  20. General Outline of Problem Oriented Research Proposal (pdf)
  21. Writing advice from a seasoned Biostatistics Professor (pdf)
  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 (pdf)

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 (pdf)
  5. Success and Survival Strategies for Women Faculty Members (pdf)
  6. Black Women in Academe: Issues and Strategies (Order Form)
  7. Giving Birth in Graduate School (pdf)
  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 (pdf)

Teaching:

  1. Careers: Pushing Grad Students Through to Completion (pdf)

Family:

  1. Study of Couples in Academe Finds Least Stress When Both Spouses Work At Same College (pdf)
  2. Higher Education Recruitment Consortium
  3. A Postdoc's Guide to Pregnancy & Maternity Leave

Tenure:

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

Return Home