The Academic Career Pathway

This guide is an introductory list to help locate research materials at the Rowland Medical Library.  Learning to navigate an academic career pathway is a complex process. New faculty need guidance on the tenure track process.  All faculty need pointers on teaching skills, curriculum development, collaboration, research, mentoring, community service, evaluation, writing and publication .

Guides / Handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries / Selected textbooks / More books / Selected journals / More journals / Selected indexes and abstracts / Selected journal articles / More reference sources / Specialized sources / Selected electronic sources

Guides  

McCabe, Linda L. and Edward R.B. McCabe. How to succeed in academics.
        LB 2331.7 M21 2000

Seldin, Peter.  The Teaching portfolio: A Practical guide to improved performance and promotion/tenure decisions. 2nd. ed.
        LB 2333 S442 1997

Billings, Diame M. and Judith A. Halstead (eds.).  Teaching in nursing: A Guide for faculty.  2nd ed.
        WY 18 B544 2004

Mackway-Jones, Kevin and Mike Walker (eds.). The pocket guide to teaching for medical students: Advanced life support group.
        W 18 P624 1999

Handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries

Blaxter, Loraine et al. The Academic Career Handbook
        LB 2331.7 .G7 B42 1998

Scheetz, Linda J.  Nursing faculty secrets
        WY 18.2 S343 2000

Bensimon, Estela Mara et al.  The Department chair's role in developing new faculty into teachers and scholars.
         LB 2341 B467 2000

Diamond, Robert M.  Aligning faculty rewards with institutional mission: statements, policies and guidelines.
         LB 2335.7 D415 1999

Selected textbooks

Soska, Tracy M. and Alice K. Johnson Butterfield (eds.).  University-community partnerships: universities in civic engagement.  
        LB 2331.4 U548 2004   
        http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip053/2004025962.html

Braskamp, Larry A. and John C. Ory.  Assessing faculty work: enhancing individual and institutional performance.  1st ed.
        LB 2333 B727 1994

Kennedy, Donald.  Academic duty.   
        LA 227.4 K466 1997

Davis, James R.  Interdisciplinary courses and team teaching: new arrangements for learning
         LB 2361.5 D284 1995.

More books 

Search RoMeO Public Access Catalog

Suggested subject headings: Faculty
Teaching
Universities
Education
Schools

Selected journals  

More journals

Search RoMeO Public Access Catalog  

Suggested subject headings: Education -- Periodicals
Education, Medical -- Periodicals
Education, Nursing -- Periodicals
Faculty -- Periodicals
Universities -- Periodicals
Teaching -- Periodicals

Selected indexes and abstracts  

Index Medicus & MEDLINE  (Off Campus Login Required)

Suggested subject headings: Faculty, Medical
Faculty, Nursing
Faculty, Pharmacy
Faculty, Dental

Academic Search Premier  (Off Campus Login Required)

Search using keywords: College Teachers
Universities
Tenure
Promotion

Selected journal articles  

Food P.  The State of tenure.  Chronicle of Higher Education.  2005  Nov 25;  52(14):pA15 -A15.

Conn VS et al.  Building research productivity in an academic setting. Nursing Outlook. 2005 sep-Oct; 53(5):1224-31.

Chambers DW et al. Development of a mission-focused faculty evaluation system. Journal of Dental Education. 2003 Jan; 67(1) : 10-22.

McLaughlin SA.  Faculty development. Academic Emergency Medicine. 2005 Apr; 12 (4) : 302e1-5.

Pololi L et al. Mentoring faculty in academic medicine. A new paradigm?  Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2005 Sep; 20(9) ; 866-90.

Fleming VM et al. Separate and equitable promotion tracks for clinician-educators. JAMA. 2005 Sep 7; 294(9) : 1101 - 4.

More reference sources

Evans, Lois K. and Norma M. Lang  (eds.).  Academic nursing practice.
        WY 18 A213 2004

More good news, so why the blues?: the annual report on the economic status of the profession, 1999-2000.  
       REF LB 2334 A313 2000

Miner, Jeremy T. and Lynn E. Miner.  Directory of biomedical and health care grants 2003.
       REF W 22 .AA1 D54 2003

Berger, Andrea et al.  Institutional policies and practices: results from the 1999 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty Institution Survey.
        LB 2331 B473 2001

Specialized sources

Report on medical school faculty salaries, 2003-2004 
        REF W 18 R466 2005

Salaries of instructional and administrative nursing faculty in baccalaureate and graduate programs in nursing.
        REF WM 175 E174 1996

National faculty directory.  3 v.
         REF L 901 N274 2002

Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology.  601-984-1634.
        University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson
        Robin W. Rockhold, Ph.D. rrockhold@pharmacology.umsmed.edu

Selected electronic sources

AAUP: American Association of University Professors
http://www.aaup.org/

AAMC: Association of American Medical Colleges
http://www.aamc.org/start.htm

ASHE: Association for the Study of Higher Education
 http://www.ashe.ws/resources.htm

Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning
http://www.ihl.state.ms.us/

International Association for Dental Research and the American Association for Dental Research
http://www.iadr.com/

The Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching
http://scientificteaching.wisc.edu

How to Mentor Graduate Students: a Guide for Faculty in a Diverse University.  University of Michigan
http://www.rackham.umich.edu/StudentInfo/Publications/FacultyMentoring/contents.html

AACU: Association of American Colleges and Universities. Faculty Developmental Models
http://www.aacu.org/issues/faculty

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Author:  Helvi McCall Price
Copyright 2006.  Reference Department, Rowland Medical Library,
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson