Resources for Mentees

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General Professional Development

TRC Handouts

• Balancing Life and Work: Three Perspectives from Tenured Faculty at the University of Virginia
• Counsel To Beginning Tenure-Track Faculty (Barnett M., Frey S., & Fuentes J. )
• Suggestions for Junior Faculty Development (from Scott, R. L.)

Selected Articles and Books

• Boice, R. Advice for New Faculty Members. Nihil Nimus. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2001.
  
• Boice, R. "Quick Starters: New Faculty Who Succeed." New Directions for Teaching and Learning, no. 48. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1991, 111-121.
• Boice, R. "Early Turning Points in Professional Careers of Women and Minorities." New Directions for Teaching and Learning, no. 53. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993, 71-79
• Brent, Rebecca, and Richard M. Felder. "The New Faculty Member." Chemical Engineering Education, 32(3), 46-47 (Summer 1998).
• Lucas, C. J. and Murry, Jr., J.W. New Faculty: A Practical Guide for Academic Beginners. NY: Palgrave, 2002.
• Martini, Kirk."Making Your Case. Strategies for an Effective Tenure Packet."
• Martini, Kirk. "Making Service Count (a little)"
• Moody, Joanne. "Junior Faculty: Job Stresses and How to Cope with Them." Demystifying the Profession: Helping Junior Faculty Succeed, 2006, 11-21.
• National Center for Women and IT: Mentoring Women Faculty (program-in-a-box)

Research

TRC Programs

• Professors as Writers

Selected Articles and Books

• Mikhailova, E. & Nilson, L., "Developing Prolific Scholars: The 'Fast Article Writing' Methodology." Stillwater: New Forums Press, 2007.
• Porter, Robert. Why Academics Have a Hard Time Writing Good Grant Proposals
• Porter, Robert. What Do Reviewers Really Want Anyway? The Journal of Reseach Administration/Research. XXXVI (2), 2005, 5-13.
• Porter, Robert. Off The Launching Pad: Stimulating Proposal Development by Junior Faculty. The Journal of Reseach Administration/Case Study. XXXV (1), 2004, 6-11.

Teaching

TRC Resources

• Top Ten teaching tips & articles by topic
  
• Guidelines for Effective Peer Consultation about an Observation (Barnett, M.)

Selected Articles and Books

• Brookfield, Stephen D. "The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom." San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990, 163-76.
• Deel, Sarah. "Finding My Teaching Voice." Tomorrows Professor Mailing List, Standford University.
• Felder, Richard M. and Rebecca Brent. "Navigating the Bumpy Road to Student-Centered Instruction."
• Martini, Kirk. "Frosting, Sauce, and the Klicking Tenure Clock."
• Perry, William. "Different Worlds in the Same Classroom: Students' Evolution in Their Vision of Knowledge and Their Expectations of Teachers." On Teaching and Learning, Vol.1, 1985.
• Van Gelder, Tim. "Teaching Critical Thinking: Some Lessons from Cognitive Science." College Teaching, Vol. 53, No. 1, Winter 2005.

Mentoring

TRC Handouts

• How To Find Good Mentors (Standford University Center for Teaching and Learning)

Selected Articles and Books

• Moody, Joanne. "Good Practices in Mentoring." Faculty Diversity: Problems and Solutions. New York, NY: Routledge Falmer, 2004. 129-135.
• Smock, Pamela J. et al. "Giving and Getting Career Advice: A Guide for Junior and Senior Faculty." NSF Advance at the University of Michigan.
• Stanley, Christine A. and Yvonne S. Lincoln. "Cross-Race Faculty Mentoring." Change, 37, 2005, 44-50.