Roundtable: Surviving the First Year of Academic Employment

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract/Description

Graduate school mentorship often prepares students for many elements of successful completion of a Ph.D. and attaining academic employment. Gaining employment, however, is often where the structured mentorship ends. Newly employed assistant professors often find themselves asking questions about how to adjust to a faculty role (logistics, work-life balance, etc.). The roundtable will discuss some of the barriers that newly employed tenure-track professors face and strategies to overcome these barriers.

Sub Unit

• Area XI. Roundtables

Division of Special Interest

• Division Session of Interest / Division of White Collar and Corporate Crime

Chair

• Jodi Lane, University of Florida

Discussants

• Grant Drawve, University of Arkansas

• Richard Lewis, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

• Chad Posick, Georgia Southern University

• Callie Marie Rennison, University of Colorado Denver

• Jessica Wells, Boise State University