This volume connects career making to the general social context in
which it takes place, careermaking individuals to the large
institutional establishment in which they operate, and specifically
career academicians to the overall knowledge enterprise from which
they draw their intellectual inspiration, on which they build their
career achievements, and to which they contribute their personal
talents. The main purpose is to explore what academic institutions,
the knowledge enterprise, and the society as a whole can and ought
to do to enhance productivity, facilitate performance, and improve
experience of individual academicians in their career-making
endeavor. Although various innovative ideas are presented to
improve normal procedures or standard processes throughout
academia, answers to this focal question often lie in different
levels of organizational units involved in academic operation. That
is, what should a department do for its faculty, a college for its
departments, a university for its colleges, an association for its
member organizations, or a government for its academic
institutions, in the best interest of the latter? Similarly,
although reformative measures are proposed to the attention of
established entities or institutionalized systems, change within
the existing situation or practice to a large degree depends upon
how people in various social roles relate to each other, in
attitude as well as in behavior, when they perform their specific
job. In other words, what should a professor do for graduate
students, a senior scholar for junior colleagues, a chair for
faculty members, a dean for chairs, a university chancellor for
deans, an editor for authors, or an association president for the
general membership, from the due perspective of the latter? The
logic or legitimacy of examining this focal question and its
organizational unit and social role is clear: a shining academician
owes much to the support of his or her assistants, students, and
followers, a rising university builds on the productivity of its
individual divisions, and a thriving knowledge enterprise depends
upon the success of individual career-making scholars. Beyond its
own functionality and success, by division of labor, the higher
level or the larger system has an inescapable responsibility to
ensure that individual players or components therein grow, develop,
and perform to the best of their potential. In content, this volume
consists of sixteen chapters. Chapter 1 identifies main pathways
and stages in academic careers. Chapters 2-5 focuses on the career
process, exploring major requirements that an academician has to
work on and fulfill in his or her career-making endeavor. These
requirements include educational preparation, job search,
institutional placement, and professional networking. Chapters 6-15
centers on the career structure, examining essential elements that
a scholar has to build and maintain in his or her career identity.
These elements range from the academic degree, position,
publication, teaching, presentation, service, grants, awards, and
membership in academic associations, to tenure. The last chapter
capitalizes on the curriculum vitae as a miniature of the academic
personality that a career professional must present to the
community of scholarship.
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