Coach's Guide for Women Professors: Who Want a Successful Career and a Well-Balanced Life

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Seltzer, Rena, author.

Contributor:

• Rosenbluth, Frances, writer of introduction.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Women college teachers.
• College teaching--Vocational guidance.
• Feminism and education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.) ill

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

• Routledge 2023
• New York : Routledge, 2023.

Summary:

This is a practical guide for women in academe whether adjuncts, professors or administrators who often encounter barriers and hostility, especially if women of color, and generally carry a heavier load of service, as well as household and care responsibilities, than their male colleagues. Rena Seltzer, a respected life coach and trainer who has worked with women professors and academic leaders for many years, offers succinct advice on how you can prioritize the multiplicity of demands on your life, negotiate better, create support networks, and move your career forward.Using telling but disguised vignettes of the experiences of women she has mentored, Rena Seltzer offers insights and strategies for managing the situations that all women face such as challenges to their authority while also paying attention to how they often play out differently for Latinas, Black and Asian women. She covers issues that arise from early career to senior administrator positions.This is a book you can read cover to cover or dip into as you encounter concerns about time management; your authority and influence; work/life balance; problems with teaching; leadership; negotiating better; finding time to write; developing your networks and social support; or navigating tenure and promotion and your career beyond.

Contents:

• How to have more time
• Establishing a productive writing practice
• Teaching
• Work/life balance
• Networking and social support
• Tenure, promotion, and the academic job market
• Authority, voice, and influence
• Negotiation
• Life after tenure
• Leadership.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and index.

ISBN:

• 9781003447689
• 1003447686
• 9781000980844
• 1000980847
• 9781000975482
• 1000975487