Steven M Cahn

Navigating Academic Life

How the System Works

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Produktbeschreibung

This engaging collection of recent essays reveals how a professorial career involves not only pursuit of a scholarly discipline but also such unwelcome features as the tribulations of graduate school, the trials of teaching, and the tensions that develop from membership in a department.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 130mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780367626624
• ISBN-10: 0367626624
• Artikelnr.: 59999131

Autorenporträt

Steven M. Cahn is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center, where he served for nearly a decade as Provost and Vice President for Academia Affairs, then as Acting President.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Graduate School
1. Orientation
2. Choosing a Dissertation Topic
3. The Hidden Curriculum
4. Preparing Graduate Students to Teach
5. Why Graduate Schools Don't Have Reunions
Part II: Teaching
6. Caring about Students
7. Teaching All the Students
8. How Teachers Succeed
9. Teaching and Testing
10. Teaching and Grading
11. Improving Teaching
12. Evaluating Teaching
PART III: Departments
13. Departmental Life
14. Faculty Appointments
15. The Ambiguities of Affirmative Action
16. Departmental Voting
17. Interviewing Candidates
18. Tenure and Academic Freedom
Finale
19. Expressing Gratitude
20. My Early Years in Academia