Five Essential Books for Getting Started in Academia

Angelo, Thomas A. and K. Patricia Cross.  1993.  Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers.   San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Bligh, Donald A. 2000. What's the Use of Lectures? San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Boice, Robert. 2000. Advice for New Faculty Members. Needham Heights, Mass.: Allyn and Bacon.

Fink, L. Dee. 2003. Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

McKeachie, Wilbert J. and others. 2005. McKeachie's Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers, 12th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.

Helpful Career and Self-Mentoring Guides

Brookfield, Stephen D. 1995. Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Caplan, Paula J. 1993. Lifting a Ton of Feathers: A Woman's Guide to Surviving in the Academic World. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Garcia, Mildred, ed. 2000. Succeeding in an Academic Career: A Guide for Faculty of Color. Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood Press.

Goldsmith, John A., John Komlos, and Penny S. Gold. 2001. The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School Through Tenure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Lucas, Christopher J. and John W. Murry, Jr. 2002. New Faculty: A Practical Guide for Academic Beginners. New York: Palgrave.

Reis, Richard M. 1997. Tomorrow's Professor: Preparing for Academic Careers in Science and Engineering. New York: IEEE Press and Wiley.

Schoenfeld, Clay and Robert Magnan. 1994. Mentor in a Manual: Climbing the Academic Ladder to Tenure. Madison, WI: Atwood Publishing.

Toth, Emily. 1997. Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press.
Wankat, Phillip C. 2002. The Effective, Efficient Professor: Teaching, Scholarship and Service. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Wulff, Donald H. and Ann E. Austin, eds. 2004. Paths to the Professoriate: Strategies for Enriching the Preparation of Future Faculty. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass

Other Sources

Hardwick, Susan.  2005.  "Mentoring Early Career Faculty in Geography: Issues and Strategies".  The Professional Geographer 57 (1): 21–27

Healey, Mick and Alan Jenkins, Linking Teaching and Research.  PowerPoint Presentation