The Essential College Professor: A Practical Guide to an Academic Career

Jeffrey Buller

Wiley, Nov 19, 2009 - Education - 428 pages

The Essential College Professor is about the "how" and "why" of being a faculty member today. Based on the author's series of highly successful faculty development workshops, each chapter deals concisely with the most important information college professors need at their fingertips when confronted by a particular challenge or faced with an exciting opportunity. Written both as a comprehensive guide to an academic career and as a ready reference to be consulted whenever needed, The Essential College Professor emphasizes proven solutions over untested theories and stresses what faculty members have to know now in order to be successful in their careers.

Each chapter is concluded by a short exercise that faculty members can perform to help them, for instance, completely revise a course by restructuring the syllabus and course materials, bring new life to a research project by reframing it as a book proposal or grant application, and so on.

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Review: The Essential College Professor: A Practical Guide to an Academic Career

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This book is FANTASTIC for anyone considering a career in academia! I'll be holding on to this one for sure.

About the author

Jeffrey L. Buller is dean of the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College at Florida

Atlantic University and author of The Essential Department Chair and The Essential Academic Dean.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Essential College Professor: A Practical Guide to an Academic Career; Wiley Desktop Editions Series
• Author: Jeffrey Buller
• Publisher: Wiley, 2009
• ISBN: 0470605456, 9780470605455
• Length: 428 pages
• Subjects: Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / General