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THE ACADEMIC'S HANDBOOK

Duke University Press

Contents

Preface to the Third Edition.............................................................................................................................................vii1. L. Gregory Jones, Loving the Academic's Vocation, Institutions and All: A Retrospective Appreciation of the Colloquium on The Academic's Handbook.....................12. Jerry G. Gaff, Faculty in the Variety of American Colleges and Universities...........................................................................................113. Samuel Schuman, Small Is ... Different: A Guide for Newcomers to Small Colleges.......................................................................................224. Stanley M. Hauerwas, The Morality of Teaching.........................................................................................................................385. Emily Toth, Women in Academia (With Updated Afterword)................................................................................................................476. Nellie Y. McKay, Minority Faculty in [Mainstream White] Academia......................................................................................................627. Craufurd D. Goodwin, Fads and Fashions on Campus: Interdisciplinarity and Internationalization........................................................................798. Ronald R. Butters, Free Speech and Academic Freedom...................................................................................................................879. Judith S. White, Anticipating and Avoiding Misperceptions of Harassment...............................................................................................9810. P. Aarne Vesilind, The Responsible Conduct of Academic Research......................................................................................................11211. Henry M. Wilbur, On Getting a Job....................................................................................................................................12312. Sudhir Shetty, The Job Market: An Overview...........................................................................................................................13613. John G. Cross and Edie N. Goldenberg, Off-Track Vetting..............................................................................................................14414. Matthew W. Finkin, The Tenure System.................................................................................................................................15515. Craufurd D. Goodwin, Some Tips on Getting Tenure.....................................................................................................................16816. A. Leigh DeNeef, Academic Salaries and Benefits......................................................................................................................17617. Norman L. Christensen, The Nuts and Bolts of Running a Lecture Course................................................................................................20318. Anne Firor Scott, Why I Teach by Discussion..........................................................................................................................21219. Elizabeth Studley Nathans, New Faculty Members and Advising..........................................................................................................21720. A. Leigh DeNeef, Some Thoughts on Faculty Mentoring..................................................................................................................22921. Patrick M. Murphy, Considering the Impact of Technology in Teaching and Learning.....................................................................................23622. Beth A. Eastlick and Zachary B. Robbins, Corporate Relations and Foundation Fundraising..............................................................................25123. Judith K. Argon, Securing Funding from Federal Sources...............................................................................................................26024. Fred E. Crossland, New Academics and the Quest for Private Funds.....................................................................................................27825. Louis J. Budd, On Writing Scholarly Articles.........................................................................................................................29126. Boyd R. Strain, Publishing in Science................................................................................................................................30627. Cathy N. Davidson and Ken Wissoker, Academic Book Publishing.........................................................................................................31528. Deborah L. Jakubs and Paul L. Conway, The Modern Research Library....................................................................................................33429. A. Kenneth Pye, University Governance and Autonomy: Who Decides What in the University...............................................................................34930. Joel Colton, The Role of the Department in the Groves of Academe.....................................................................................................36731. Philip Stewart, The Academic Community...............................................................................................................................387Selected Further Readings................................................................................................................................................395Contributors.............................................................................................................................................................399Index....................................................................................................................................................................403

Chapter One

A Retrospective Appreciation of the Colloquium on The Academic's Handbook

L. GREGORY JONES

I accepted the invitation more out of flattery and curiosity than anything else. I had been invited to participate in a colloquium about the academic life and academic culture that would culminate in the first edition of this handbook. It sounded intriguing, but I also accepted because I thought it couldn't hurt to have participation in such a colloquium on my CV when I applied for jobs (I had already been acculturated at least that much into an academic vocation!). I could hardly have imagined, however, just how significant that colloquium would be for my own vocation: it helped me see the larger contexts and issues of academic life, to begin to realize that my doctoral education had been increasingly focused on mastery of my field, rather than on acculturating me to a particular profession. To be sure, I had picked up some tips from faculty advisers and other graduate students on practical matters that would help me get a job: reading papers at scholarly conferences, publishing an essay or two in scholarly journals, making sure I had some teaching experience. But the general focus of my graduate education was preparation for a particular field of scholarship. If I thought at all about the institution in which that education took place,...