Becoming a Professor

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Comprehensive, exceptionally well organized, thoroughly 'user friendly' in content and presentation, Becoming a Professor: A Guide to a Career in Higher Education should be considered essential reading by anyone considering or aspiring to becoming a career academic. . . .[The book] is a strongly recommended addition to all college and university library Educational Studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists. * Midwest Book Review * College professors typically do not receive the quantity or quality of the professional development training they need. Becoming a Professor by Marie Iding and Murray Thomas seeks to begin to fill this void by offering a concise, organized, and friendly guide to becoming a successful academic, including a balance of useful basic information about academic life and useful advice based on years of experience. -- Richard E. Mayer, professor, department of psychological and brain sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara and author of "Applying the Science of Learning to Education" Had Becoming a Professor been available to my generation, our academic careers could have been not only more productive but much more fulfilling. Just as The Joy of Cooking formed a generation of culinary artists, this book rejuvenates higher education. Professors Iding and Thomas have probed into every aspect of academic life, sifting out the values and skills that make higher education such a rewarding profession. -- Noel McGinn, professor emeritus, Harvard Becoming a Professor is more than a must read for those seeking academic positions, in academic positions, advising those in academic positions (e.g., deans), and for the general public curious about what professors do with all their time if they aren't teaching. Becoming is an easy, marvelous read. It's hard to put down; one's learning curve is steep. -- Richard J. Shavelson, Margaret Jacks Professor of Education (Emeritus), I. James Quillen Dean (Emeritus), Stanford University