Beyond Survival in the Academy

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Beyond Survival in the Academy

• Presented by Sean Humpherys

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Overview

• Companion book to Survival in the Academy with
  author commentary
• Suggests or addresses starting at a non-Research
  I. school

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Tenure

• Tenure promotes academic freedom and as
  financially reward
• Tenure criticism is hindrance to economic
  utility
• Trend and pressure to replace tenure with other
  reward mechanisms

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Tenure Advice

• Start early
• Set goals and develop plan in graduate school
• Get a mentor
• Tenure is part political

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Tenure Portfolio

• Sections for
• Research
• Teaching and
• Service

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Tenure Portfolio

• Teaching Portfolio
• Student evaluation
• Curricular innovations
• Successful class activities
• Lectures Syllabus
• Assessment instruments
• Student learning outcomes
• Videotapes of teaching

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Tenure Portfolio

• Research Portfolio
• Publications
• Unpublished manuscripts
• Sponsored Research projects
• Conference proceedings
• Pedagogical applications of research
• Research in progress
• Scholarly activities

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Tenure Portfolio

• Service Portfolio
• Service to department
• Service to students
• Service to college
• Service to community

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Survive Transition

• First year is the most difficult
• Get a mentor
• Plan for hidden costs
• Moving, professional attire, student loans,
  parking, socializing, automobile, unions
• Use a university credit union

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Teaching

• Learn to teach, make the time
• We are expected to pick up teaching by osmosis.
  (Millman 1994)
• Current trend in teaching is Active Learning
• High-interest lessons based on real-world
  situations
• Author recommends Davis (1993) book Tools for
  Teaching

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Teaching

• Service Learning (student projects)
• www.active-learning-site.com (summary link and
  internet link are best resources)
• Visit your institution teaching resource center.
  (http//www.utc.arizona.edu/)
• Two great classes
• Learner Centered Teaching Grad697a
• Technology in the class room

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Research

• Publish or Perish
• Develop your research goals (even in Ph.D.
  program)
• Set aside time each week (I say each day) to
  progress your research
• Very hard first year to research
• Self-promotion needed, converse with colleagues
  about your research

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Research Goals in Grad School

• Personal example
• Read all the abstracts and be familiar with the
  research from MIS, ISR, JMIS, MS, CACM, IEEET,
  JAIS, for the past 5 years
• Five published papers before graduation
• Two published papers from my dissertation work
• One co-authorship in a Tier 1 journal
• Two conference papers or non-tier 1 journals
• A dataset for future work and future publications
• Be a reviewer four times (one being from a tier 1
  journal)

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Service

• Know your departmental guidelines
• Time consuming, balance service with research and
  teaching
• Limit or postpone service in your first year
• Service to department, institution, community.

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Networking

• Meet people, develop long-term friendships
• How can I serve you? attitude
• Listen 80 Talk 20
• Dont gossip or criticize. Its a small world.

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