048 - Professional Development Workshop. Navigating Your First Academic Job: Flourishing in the Early Years

Session Submission Type: Workshop

Abstract

Graduate school concentrates on preparing us to be researchers. However, when you begin that first job, you realize that there's a lot more to getting tenure than just publishing. How do you balance research with teaching? What are expectations about service and college citizenship? How do you demonstrate that you are an effective advisor? How can you suss out what it means to be a "productive scholar" and an "effective teacher" at your place of work? Questions abound about how to achieve success, and it doesn't make it easier that expectations in areas of evaluation vary by institutional type, and even by institution. In this workshop, panelists will share insights and give advice on figuring out how to flourish in a first job. We will also leave plenty of time for questions from the audience.

Sub Unit

• Professional Workshop

Session Organizer

• Kate Linnenberg, Beloit College

Leader

• Kate Linnenberg, Beloit College

Panelists

• Celso M. Villegas, Kenyon College

• Marina Zaloznaya, University of Iowa