The Road to Tenure
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This book contains humorous recollections of the messiness and confusion that fill the days of a pre-tenure academic - from graduate school through the post-doc, and into the assistant professor days. The stories recount the experiences of pre-tenure academics in the thick of things and trying - perhaps unsuccessfully - to make sense of it all.

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This book contains humorous recollections of the messiness and confusion that fill the days of a pre-tenure academic - from graduate school through the post-doc, and into the assistant professor days. The stories recount the experiences of pre-tenure academics in the thick of things and trying - perhaps unsuccessfully - to make sense of it all.
Autorenporträt
Erin Marie Furtak is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She holds degrees in Biology (B.A., University of Colorado), Education (M.A., University of Denver), and Curriculum and Teacher Education (Ph.D., Stanford University). She currently studies reforms in middle and high school science teaching, exploring different ways that teachers can be supported to improve their teaching practice and how this relates to student learning. She lives in Golden, Colorado, with her husband and two young children, and spends a fair amount of her free time trying to have a sense of humor about her profession.  Ian Parker Renga is a doctoral candidate in the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He earned a B.S. in biology and B.A. in fine art from Indiana University (2001) and a Masters degree in education from Harvard University (2005). Before returning to graduate school to study teaching and teacher education, he was a paraeducator and autism specialist in Bellingham, Washington and a middle school science and math teacher in Blacksburg, Virginia. He and his wife, Katie, and their dog, Tumble, live in Lafayette, Colorado.