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Ms. Mentor's new and ever more impeccable advice for women and men in academia / Emily Toth.
LIBRA LB2332.3 .T683 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Toth, Emily.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women college teachers--United States--Miscellanea.
- Women college teachers.
- Women graduate students--United States--Miscellanea.
- Women graduate students.
- Women college teachers--United States--Social conditions.
- Women graduate students--United States--Social conditions.
- Women college teachers--United States--Conduct of life.
- Women graduate students--United States--Conduct of life.
- Conduct of life.
- Social conditions.
- Miscellanea.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 268 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- Ms. Mentor, that uniquely brilliant and irascible intellectual, is your all-knowing guide through the jungle that is academia today. In the last decade Ms. Mentor's mailbox has been filled to overflowing with thousands of plaintive epistles, rants, and gossipy screeds. A mere fraction has appeared in her celebrated monthly online and print Q&A columns for the Chronicle of Higher Education; her readers' colorful and rebellious ripostes have gone unpublished-until now.
- From the ivory tower that affords her an unparalleled view of the academic landscape, Ms. Mentor dispenses her perfect wisdom to the huddled masses of professorial newbies, hardbitten oldies, and anxious midcareerists. She gives etiquette lessons to academic couples and the tough-talking low-down on adjunct positions. She tells you what to wear, how to make yourself popular, and how to decode academic language. Raw, shocking, precise, clever, absurd-Ms. Mentor has it all.
- Contents:
- The petty and the profound : what they write to Ms. Mentor
- Stewing in graduate school
- Foraging for an academic job
- Love and sex in academia
- You're hired! early years in a strange new world
- The fine and quirky art of teaching
- Working and playing well with others
- Questions great and small
- Adjuncts
- The tenure trek
- What is life after tenure?
- Are you the retiring type?
- Daring to create your own life.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-255) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812220391
- 0812220390
- OCLC:
- 229036356
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