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Ms. Mentor's New and Ever More Impeccable Advice for Women and Men in Academia.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (282 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812208122
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ms. Mentor's New and Ever More Impeccable Advice for Women and Men in AcademiaDDC classification:
  • 378.1/2082
LOC classification:
  • LB2332.3 -- .T683 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 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 -- Ms. Mentor's Exemplary Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Ms. Mentor, a brilliant and irascible intellectual who never leaves her ivory tower, writes Q&A columns full of perfect wisdom for academics. With wicked wit, she exposes viperous colleagues, teaching evaluation tricks, romantic pitfalls, tenure traps, and scholarly eccentricities. She spills the secrets that your adviser didn't dare tell you.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 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 -- Ms. Mentor's Exemplary Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

Ms. Mentor, a brilliant and irascible intellectual who never leaves her ivory tower, writes Q&A columns full of perfect wisdom for academics. With wicked wit, she exposes viperous colleagues, teaching evaluation tricks, romantic pitfalls, tenure traps, and scholarly eccentricities. She spills the secrets that your adviser didn't dare tell you.

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