Required readings:
- McMillan Cottom, Tressie. 2014. “The New Old Labor Crisis.” Slate, January 24.
- Buller, Jeffrey L. 2009. “What Kind of Professor Are You?” in The Essential College Professor: A Practical Guide to an Academic Career.
- Gannon, Kevin. 2016. “The Hiring Process at Teaching Colleges.” Chronicle Vitae, July 7.
- drmellivora. 2013. “Surviving the Research to Teaching Transition.” Tenure, She Wrote, October 3.
Recommended Resources:
- Kelsky, Karen. The Professor Is In. Excerpts.
- Weimer, Maryellen. 2010. Inspired College Teaching: A Career-Long Resource for Professional Growth.
- Precarity in academia
- and . 2018. “Academic Precarity in American Anthropology.“ Dispatches, Cultural Anthropology website, February 12, 2018.
- Careers at teaching institutions
- Grollman, Eric Anthony. 2015. “Figuring Out Where You Want to Land After Graduate School.” Chronicle Vitae, November 11.
- Jenkins, Rob. 2018. “Don’t Let Prestige Bias Keep You From Applying to Community Colleges” and “What to Expect at a Community College Interview.” Chronicle Vitae.
- Teaching portfolios, Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University
- Teaching statements
- Teaching Statements, Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University (includes general guidelines, reflection questions and exercises to get started, and a rubric for evaluating teaching statements)
- Jenks, Angela. 2016. “Crafting a Statement of Teaching Philosophy.” Teaching Tools, Cultural Anthropology website, July 22.
- Teaching demonstrations
- . 2016. “Preparing Your Teaching Demonstration.“ Teaching Tools, Cultural Anthropology website, September 16.
- Dugan, Katherine. 2017. “The Teaching Demonstration: 3 Goals” and “Five Tips for a Successful Teaching Demonstration (Learned from Failure)” The Professor is In.
- Preparing for a teaching career
- UCI DTEI Pedagogical Fellows Program
- CSU Long Beach Pre-Professor Program
- UCI California Community Colleges Internship Program
- LACCD Project Match (mentorship program to prepare and recruit diverse faculty)