General Professional Development

• Balancing Life and Work: Three Perspectives from Tenured Faculty at the University of Virginia

• Counsel To Beginning Tenure-Track Faculty (Barnett M., Frey S., & Fuentes J. )

• Suggestions for Junior Faculty Development (from Scott, R. L.)

• Boice, R. Advice for New Faculty Members. Nihil Nimus. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2001.

• Boice, R. “Quick Starters: New Faculty Who Succeed.” New Directions for Teaching and Learning, no. 48. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1991, 111-121.

• Boice, R. “Early Turning Points in Professional Careers of Women and Minorities.” New Directions for Teaching and Learning, no. 53. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993, 71-79

• Brent, Rebecca, and Richard M. Felder. “The New Faculty Member.” Chemical Engineering Education, 32(3), 46-47 (Summer 1998).

• Lucas, C. J. and Murry, Jr., J.W. New Faculty: A Practical Guide for Academic Beginners. NY: Palgrave, 2002.

• Martini, Kirk.“Making Your Case. Strategies for an Effective Tenure Packet.”

• Martini, Kirk. “Making Service Count (a little)“

• Moody, Joanne. “Junior Faculty: Job Stresses and How to Cope with Them.” Demystifying the Profession: Helping Junior Faculty Succeed, 2006, 11-21.

Research

• Mikhailova, E. & Nilson, L., “Developing Prolific Scholars: The ‘Fast Article Writing’ Methodology.” Stillwater: New Forums Press, 2007.
   

• Porter, Robert. Why Academics Have a Hard Time Writing Good Grant Proposals?
   

• Porter, Robert. What Do Reviewers Really Want Anyway? The Journal of Reseach Administration/Research. XXXVI (2), 2005, 5-13.
   

• Porter, Robert. Off The Launching Pad: Stimulating Proposal Development by Junior Faculty. The Journal of Reseach Administration/Case Study. XXXV (1), 2004, 6-11.

 

Teaching

• Brookfield, Stephen D. “The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom.” San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990, 163-76.

• Deel, Sarah. “Finding My Teaching Voice.” Tomorrows Professor Mailing List, Standford University.

• Felder, Richard M. and Rebecca Brent. “Navigating the Bumpy Road to Student-Centered Instruction.”

• Martini, Kirk. “Frosting, Sauce, and the Klicking Tenure Clock.”

• Perry, William. “Different Worlds in the Same Classroom: Students’ Evolution in Their Vision of Knowledge and Their Expectations of Teachers.” On Teaching and Learning, Vol.1, 1985.

• Van Gelder, Tim. “Teaching Critical Thinking: Some Lessons from Cognitive Science.” College Teaching, Vol. 53, No. 1, Winter 2005.

Mentoring

• Moody, Joanne. “Good Practices in Mentoring.” Faculty Diversity: Problems and Solutions. New York, NY: Routledge Falmer, 2004. 129-135.

• Smock, Pamela J. et al. “Giving and Getting Career Advice: A Guide for Junior and Senior Faculty.” NSF Advance at the University of Michigan.

• Stanley, Christine A. and Yvonne S. Lincoln. “Cross-Race Faculty Mentoring.” Change, 37, 2005, 44-50.