Reflections on My Career: Lessons Learned and Opportunities Missed

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Shevlin
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Junior Faculty ◽  
Academic Profession ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Missed Opportunities ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
History Of

ABSTRACT Participating in this special issue has given me the opportunity to reflect on my career in terms of the choices I made, the lessons I learned, and the missed opportunities. I start with a brief history of my academic career to provide context for some of the lessons I have learned. After the chronological history, I discuss lessons learned, missed opportunities, and offer my thoughts on teaching, research, publishing, and service to the academic profession. I conclude with some takeaways that may be useful to doctoral students and junior faculty.

Eric H. Shaw: reflections on an improbable academic career

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric H. Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Improvement Project ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Academic Mission ◽  
Teaching Research

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the author’s serendipitous career and provide some lessons that might be of value to those pursuing the academic mission: teaching, research and service. Design/methodology/approach The method involves primary sources; mainly the author’s CV to jog recall of events and dates, some of his articles and the teachings and writings of many others that influenced or inspired various aspects of the author’s career. Findings The author’s experiences affirm that to achieve any degree of success in the professoriate, in addition to having some talent it is also helpful to be lucky. There is a lot to navigate at a university. Opportunities exist at every turn, some noticed some missed. When recognized, be prepared. Being a professor is not what you do, it is who you are. Preparation for an academic career involves becoming a self-improvement project (essentially, a life-long student learning lessons). It requires developing expertise (preferably excellence) in some field of study, as well as resourcefulness, resilience and perseverance. Originality/value Each individual’s story is unique. The author’s path seems to have included more twists and turns than most. Consequently, he tried to highlight the experiences with lessons learned in most sections, some obvious some less so, which he expects (at least hopes) will prove valuable to future educators.

scholarly journals Facilitating Community Engagement in Academic Pharmacy Careers

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura C Palombi
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Expert Testimony ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Junior Faculty ◽  
Community Partnerships ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
Financial Interests

Despite the recognized value of community engagement in academic pharmacy, the implementation of sustainable and fruitful community partnerships can be challenging. This manuscript will highlight a junior faculty member’s journey with community engagement, sharing the ways that community engagement can guide an academic career and the benefits of community engagement in teaching, research and service. Also highlighted is the role – and argued responsibility - of the academic institution in community engagement, as well as an identification of the barriers that might be interfering with pharmacy faculty community engagement. Considerations for the development of faculty members striving to more fully incorporate engagement into their teaching, research, and service are provided. Conflict of Interest I declare no conflicts of interest or financial interests that the authors or members of their immediate families have in any product or service discussed in the manuscript, including grants (pending or received), employment, gifts, stock holdings or options, honoraria, consultancies, expert testimony, patents and royalties.   Type: Commentary

Business Faculty Time Management: Lessons Learned From The Trenches

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Richard G. Cummings ◽  
Linda E. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Time Management ◽  
Academic Profession ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Business Faculty ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
Service Expectations ◽  
Faculty Time ◽  
Academic Professions

Teaching, research, and service expectations of the academic profession may sometimes seem overwhelming. Although much has been written about time management in general, there has not been much written about time management in the academic professions and even less written about time management for academics in the business disciplines. This paper will provide a review of the literature about time management for faculty. In addition, this paper will provide practical methods for you to plan and organize your time to better meet your teaching, research and service expectations. Finally, this paper will help you develop a strategy to avoid the top ten time wasters for faculty.

scholarly journals Turned Off from an Academic Career: Engineering and Computing Doctoral Students and the Reasons for Their Dissuasion

10.28945/4250 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 277-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ebony O McGee ◽  
Dara E Naphan-Kingery ◽  
Faheemah N Mustafaa ◽  
Stacey Houston ◽  
Portia Botchway ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Junior Faculty ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Grant Writing ◽  
Faculty Experiences ◽  
Faculty Position ◽  
Holistic Approaches ◽  
Comprehensive Survey

Aim/Purpose: We sought to understand factors that dissuade engineering and computing doctoral students in the United States from pursuing a career in the professoriate. Background: Many PhD students start the doctoral process excited about the possibility of becoming a professor. After a few years of doctoral education, however, many become less interested in academic careers or even come to loathe the idea of a faculty position. Methodology: Participants in a larger study (N = 744) completed a comprehensive survey about their educational experiences and career aspirations. This study focused on a subset of these respondents (n = 147), who indicated they did not want to pursue faculty positions and explained their reasoning with a brief open-ended response. We coded these open-ended responses. Contribution: We found a general lack of interest in the professoriate and disgust over the associated pressure-filled norms and culture; this aversion is the article’s focus. Respondents were critical of institutional norms that emphasize research (e.g., stress related to grant writing, publishing, and promotion as junior faculty) and described their own experiences as PhD students. Findings: Findings support rethinking the outdated faculty model and interchanging it with healthier and more holistic approaches. Recommendations for Practitioners: These approaches might include advocating for and emphasizing the contributions of research, teaching, and professional excellence as well as removing the secrecy and toxicity of tenure and promotion that discourage individuals from becoming the next generation of engineering and computing educators and knowledge makers. Recommendation for Researchers: Future researchers should explore in greater depth the extent to which junior faculty’s experiences in the professoriate influence doctoral students’ and postdoctoral scholars’ attitudes toward working in academia. To the extent that this is the case, researchers should then explore ways of improving faculty experiences, in addition to improving doctoral students’ experiences that are unrelated to their socialization. Impact on Society: Having a deeper understanding of the reasons why some doctoral engineering and computing students are uninterested in the professoriate is critical for removing barriers toward becoming faculty. Future Research: Researchers should explore the factors that would improve doctoral students’ perceptions of the professoriate, and better understand how they might disproportionately affect members of historically underrepresented groups.

scholarly journals Road to Success: A Guide for Doctoral Students and Junior Faculty

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viswanath Venkatesh
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Research Universities ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Junior Faculty ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Senior Faculty ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Phd Programs

This book provides guidance and tools to help PhD students and junior faculty members successfully navigate and mature through the various stages of an academic career. Senior faculty members can use this book as a source of ideas to advise their PhD students and junior colleagues. This book presents knowledge that is seldom imparted in PhD programs, and organizes the same as advice and tools related to achieving success at research, teaching and service, all while maintaining work-life balance. The advice and tools provided are based on years of experience of the author and guest contributors, who have successfully navigated many of the same challenges and mentored many PhD students and junior faculty members. This book is suitable both for those who seek careers in research universities or universities that promote greater balance across research, teaching and service.

Reframing the Sciences of the Long Eighteenth Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 58-66
Author(s):  
Giuliano Pancaldi
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Long Eighteenth Century ◽  
Past Half

Here I survey a sample of the essays and reviews on the sciences of the long eighteenth century published in this journal since it was founded in 1969. The connecting thread is some historiographic reflections on the role that disciplines—in both the sciences we study and the fields we practice—have played in the development of the history of science over the past half century. I argue that, as far as disciplines are concerned, we now find ourselves a bit closer to a situation described in our studies of the long eighteenth century than we were fifty years ago. This should both favor our understanding of that period and, hopefully, make the historical studies that explore it more relevant to present-day developments and science policy. This essay is part of a special issue entitled “Looking Backward, Looking Forward: HSNS at 50,” edited by Erika Lorraine Milam.

The History of Missed Opportunities

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM H. GALPERIN
Keyword(s):  
Missed Opportunities ◽  
History Of

The History of Missed Opportunities

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. Galperin
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
William Wordsworth ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Lord Byron ◽  
Missed Opportunities ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Multiple Levels

This study is about the emergence of the everyday as both a concept and a material event and about the practices of retrospection in which it came to awareness in the romantic period in “histories” of the missed, the unappreciated, the overlooked. Prior to this moment everyday life was both unchanging and paradoxically unpredictable. By the late eighteenth century, however, as life became more predictable and change on a technological and political scale more rapid, the present came into unprecedented focus, yielding a world answerable to neither precedent nor futurity. This alternative world soon appears in literature of the period: in the double takes by which the poet William Wordsworth disencumbers history of memory in demonstrating what subjective or “poetic” experience typically overlooks; in Jane Austen, whose practice of revision returns her to a milieu that time and progress have erased and that reemerges, by previous documentation, as something different. It is observable in Lord Byron, thanks to the “history” to which marriage and domesticity are consigned not only in the wake of his separation from Lady Byron but during their earlier epistolary courtship, where the conjugal present came to consciousness (and prestige) as foredoomed but an opportunity nonetheless. The everyday world that history focalizes in the romantic period and the conceptual void it exposes in so doing remains a recovery on multiple levels: the present is both “a retrospect of what might have been” (Austen) and a “sense,” as Wordsworth put it, “of something ever more about to be.”

scholarly journals Zuckerman & Calobrisi - Introduction to the Special Issue on Buddhism & the History of Science

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-218
Author(s):  
Thomas Calobrisi ◽  
Devin Zuckerman
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
History Of
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