Program Resources

U.Va. Resources

Graduate Arts & Sciences Career Services (GSAS Career Services)
Thornton Hall, Room A123 (243-4014)
Graduate Arts & Sciences Career Services provides direct career services tailored to the needs of Master's and PhD students of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia. These services supplement the career planning and professional development programs offered by academic departments and other support services on Grounds.

The Graduate Guide
(gradstudies@virginia.edu)
A resource to assist incoming and enrolled graduate students with adjusting to "life" in Charlottesville. The website is maintained by the Office of the Vice President for Research & Graduate Studies.

In the Classroom

Angelo, Thomas, K. Patricia Cross. Classroom Assessment Techniques (Jossey-Bass 1993)

Bain, Ken. What the Best College Teachers Do (Harvard University Press, 2004)

Bean, John. Engaging Ideas (Jossey Bass, 1996)

Bender, Eileen, Millard Dunn, Bonniem Kendall, Catherine Larson and Peggy Wilkes. Quick Hits (Indiana University Press, 1994)

McKeatchie, Wilbert J. McKeachie's Teaching Tips (Houghton-Mifflin, 2002)

Parker, Palmer. The Courage to Teach (Jossey-Bass, 1998)

Stocking, Holly S., Eileen T. Bender, Claude H. Cookman, J. Vincent Peterson and Robert B. Votaw. More Quick Hits (Indiana University Press, 1994)

University of Minnesota. Syllabus Tutorial.

For the Profession

    Books for Beginning Faculty

Boice, Robert. Advice for New Faculty Members: Nihil Nimus (Allyn & Bacon, 2001)

Bonetta, Laura (Ed). Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientifıc Management for Postdocs and New Faculty (Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Burroughs Wellcome Fund, 2004).

Davidson, Cliff I. and Susan A. Ambrose.  The New Professor’s Handbook: A Guide to Teaching and Research in Engineering and Science.  Bolton, MA: Anker, 1994.

Gibson, Gerald. Good Start: A Guidebook for New Faculty in Liberal Arts Colleges (Anker, 1992)

Goldsmith, John A., John Komlos and Penny Shine Gold.  The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars from GraduateSchool through Tenure.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Lang, James M.  Life on the Tenure Track: Lessons from the First Year.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

Lucas, Christopher, John Murray. New Faculty: A Practical Guide for Academic Beginners (Palgrove, 2002)

Menges, Robert J. Faculty in New Jobs: A Guide to Settling In, Becoming Established, and BuildingInstitutional Support.  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999.

Reis, Richard M.  Tomorrow’s Professor: Preparing for Academic Careers in Science and Engineering. New York: Wiley-Interscience, 1997.

Schoenfeld, Clay and Robert Magnan.  Mentor in a Manual: Climbing the Academic Ladder to Tenure.  Atwood, 2004.

    Books about Academic Job Searches

DeNeef, A. Leigh and Crawford D. Goodwin, Eds. The Academic’s Handbook, 2nd Ed. Durhan, NC: Duke University Press, 1995.

Formo, Dawn M. and Cheryl Reed.  Job Search in Academe: Strategic Rhetorics for Faculty Job CandidatesSterling, VA: Stylus, 1999.

Goldsmith, John A., John Komlos and Penny Shine Gold.  The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars from GraduateSchool through Tenure.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Heiberger, Mary Morris and Julia Miller Vick.  The Academic Job Search Handbook, 3rd Ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.

University of Minnesota. The Academic Job Search: Making Effective Presentations.

    Career Options

Berkley Career Center. Career Options for PhDs
MIT Career Office. Career Options for PhDs

    Writing

Boice, Robert. Professor as Writers (New Forums Press, 1990)

At the University

The Chronicle of Higher Education
Inside Higher Education

Note: All print resources are available in the TRC Library.