Road to Tenure (eBook)

Erin Marie Furtak is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She holds degrees in Biology (B.A., University of Colorado), Education (M.A., University of Denver), and Curriculum and Teacher Education (Ph.D., Stanford University). She currently studies reforms in middle and high school science teaching, exploring different ways that teachers can be supported to improve their teaching practice and how this relates to student learning. She lives in Golden, Colorado, with her husband and two young children, and spends a fair amount of her free time trying to have a sense of humor about her profession. Ian Parker Renga is a doctoral candidate in the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He earned a B.S. in biology and B.A. in fine art from Indiana University (2001) and a Masters degree in education from Harvard University (2005). Before returning to graduate school to study teaching and teacher education, he was a paraeducator and autism specialist in Bellingham, Washington and a middle school science and math teacher in Blacksburg, Virginia. He and his wife, Katie, and their dog, Tumble, live in Lafayette, Colorado.

IntroductionBy Erin Marie Furtak and Ian Parker RengaSection 1: Startup CostsWarning: Scholarship Can Be Hazardous for Your HealthBy Ian Parker RengaLucy and the Football: My Search for a Job in a Charlie Brown WorldBy Steve NewtonChocolate Frosting & The Art of InterviewingBy Heather M. BandeenChanging Clothes in the Phone BoothBy Jessalynn StraussSection 2: Occupational DissonanceWhose class is it anyway?By Julie C. MitchellWhen Homer Simpson Writes Homer’s Iliad: Preventing Plagiarism while Keeping Your PromotionBy Troy ApplingHow Not to Teach a ClassBy Andrew ShtulmanPublish, Perish, or Apply for Social Security: Reflections on the Tenure ProcessBy Logan GreeneThe Life of the Mind…In the Company of OthersBy Amanda JansenSection 3: Professors Are People, TooThe Village IdiotBy Erin Marie FurtakHot Mess Times ThreeBy Hindi KrinskyWho’s Pro-creating Now?: Two Sides of Parenting in the AcademeBy Lara Narcisi and Scott DimovitzHow I Got Dismissed from Jury Duty: A Reflection on Philosophy and Public LifeBy Rick Anthony FurtakAcknowledgements