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 positions 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.

Marie Iding (PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara) is a professor of educationalpsychology University of Hawaii at Mnoa, where she has taught for over twenty years. She has also taught, and presented research or workshops in diverse locations around the world, including American Samoa, Chuuk (Federated States of Micronesia), Vietnam, Germany, Switzerland, South Africa, Kenya, Spain, Portugal, Fiji, Australia, Jamaica, Poland and Scotland.R. Murray Thomas (PhD, Stanford University) is a professor emeritus of educational psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he also directed the program in International Education. His list of professional publications exceeds 400, including 59 books for which he served as author, coauthor, or editor.

PrefaceChapter 1: Higher Educations Significant ContextsPart I: Preparing to Become a ProfessorChapter 2: Types of Higher Education InstitutionsChapter 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