Resources for Graduate Students
Materials from AdvanceVT seminars and workshops:
- Tips for Applying for an Academic Postion (Dr. Mary Kasarda & Dr. Madeline Schreiber)
- Contemporary Pedagogical Issues: How Do We Engage SOL-Trained, Passive Learners? (Dr. Shelli Fowler, Executive Director, Graduate Development Programs & New Pedagogies in Learning Technologies and Associate Professor of English)
- Academic Job Interviews: Questions and Advice (Dr. Roseanne Foti, Associate Professor, Psychology)
- Negotiating Academic Job Offers (Dr. Ken Ball, Department Head, Mechanical Engineering)
- The Academic Job Interview (Dr. Leigh McCue, Assistant Professor, Aerospace and Ocean Engineering)
- Preparing for an Academic Job Search: Overview (Dr. Nancy Ross, Associate Dean, College of Sciences)
- Preparing for an Academic Job Search: Application Materials (Dr. Janis Terpenny, Associate Professor, Engineering Education)
- Why Consider an Academic Career in a Teaching-Centered Institution? (Dr. Hank Yochum, Sweet Briar College)
- How to Get a Teaching Job at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution (Malcolm Campbell, American Society for Cell Biology)
- Balancing Work and Family (Dr. Amy Bell)
- Professional Presentations (Dr. Marion Ehrich)
- Faculty Interviews: A View from Behind the Desk (Dr. Kathy Banks)
- AAAS Career Basics booklet 2009
- Negotiating Job Offers (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- References and Links from Forward to Professorship Workshop
- American Association for the Advancement of Science Career Development Web Site
- Preparing Future Faculty web site
- Surviving and Thriving in Academia from the American Psychological Association
- Materials from Rice University's Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position workshop
- PhDs.org
- Success in the Promotion & Tenure Process (Dr. Tammy Henderson, Virginia Tech)
- Work Life Grants for Virginia Tech Graduate Students
- Tips for Success in Graduate School (Dr. Naira Hovakimyan, Virginia Tech)