A. Fundamentals
1
"I Can Do That!" 2 What Is
Graduate Education For? 3 Getting [MK1] into Graduate School
4 Matching and Searching 5 Taking
Advice 6 Students
7 Advice to New Doctoral Students
8 Why Get a PhD? Why Be a Professor? And Where? 9 For New Graduate Students 10 Excellent Work 11 Thinking Analytically While Reading a
Paper or Listening to a Talk 12 Excuses 13 Getting Your Doctoral Degree in the Fabled
Four Years 14 The Limits of What You
Learned in College or High School 15
Graduate Student Ambitions 16 Advice to an
Ambivalent but Strong Doctoral Student in a Practical Field 17 External Research Support in the Research
University 18 Graduate Student Basics 19 Being Autonomous 20 Improving Your Work 21 Learning the Material 22 How to Write Grant or Fellowship
Proposals: For Doctoral Students 23
Advice for New Students 24 Qualifying
Exams 25 Writing It Down
B.
Your Advisor and Committee
26 Why Does My Professor Ask Me to Write a Memo Before He
Sees Me? 27 No Surprises for the Boss 28 Using Your Own Judgment 29 Delivering
30 On Choosing an Advisor and Building Your Studies 31 Choosing Your Committee 32 Firing Your Advisor 33 Memos to Your Committee 34 Success Is Not about Being Top-Ranked at a Top-Ranked School 35 Financial Support and the Subject of Your
Research 36 Taking Your Mentors' Advice 37 How Responsible Should Advisors Be for Their
Doctoral Students? 38 The Good Advisor 39
Basics for New Faculty and Advisors: Avoiding "Internalization of the
Aggressor" and Being "Good Enough" 40 Advisors as Scholars
C.
Sticky Situations
41 Envy 42 I Would Never
Want What Happened to Me to Happen to My Students or to My Children 43 Competition 44 Laptop, Smartphone, Tablet Decorum 45 The Experienced Student, the Military
Veteran 46 Judgment and Grades 47 Plagiarism 48 "Steal My Ideas!":
Impact, Originality 49 Excuses 50 Toward the End of the Semester 51 Doing the Scut Work 52 The Future of Data and Methods--Concreteness:
Computation, Cinematic Arts, Statistics and Economics, and Talking to Your Rats 53 Data
54 Incompletes: For a Class, for Tenure
Chapter 2. Writing (#55 -95)
A. Fundamentals
55 Writing and Progress
56 Writing a Dissertation Is Chopping Down a Forest, Tree by Tree 57 Dissertation Proposals and Papers 58 Forced Evolution 59 Setting the Agenda: Independence 60 Storytelling and Focus 61 Using Design Skills to Write Research Papers 62 Draw a Target around Where Your Arrow Hits 63 Writing Advice 64 The Writing Path 65 More Writing Advice 66 The Basics
67 Style Manuals 68 PowerPoint vs.
Analytical Writing 69 Rewriting 70 Writing So Your Work Is Accepted for
Publication 71 Editing Your Book
Manuscript 72 Fixing Your Book
Manuscript 73 What Is This Paper About? 74 The Big Idea, Lessons, Lists
B.
Bottom Line Up Front
75 Bottom Line Up Front = BLUF[MK2] 76 If You Can't Say
It in Three Sentences, You Do Not Know What Your Script Is About 77 The First Sentence Should Give Away the
Whole Story; If Not, Do It by the Second
78 The Takeaway 79 "The
Layout Was Hard on the Eyes" 80 Why
Papers Are Immediately Returned and Rejected by Journals
C. Research
81 Reviewing the Research Literature 82 Boring Work 83 Craftsmanship and Film Editing 84 Rereading Is Illuminating
D.
Publishing
85 Grammar-Checking 86
Publishing Your Dissertation Work 87
Collaboration 88 Substantial
Contributions 89 Reviewers' Reports,
Appropriate Journals, and Colleagues' Pre-Reviews 90 Writing a Good Second Draft: Take Charge of
What You Are Saying 91 Anxiety: Negative
Reviews, Coauthoring 92 If You Write a Paper,
Get It Published! 93 Why Do People Write
Books? 94 Books or Articles 95 Rankings
Chapter 3. Getting Done (#96 -112)
A. Fundamentals
96 Moses and the Promised Land 97 Brilliant Ideas Are Already in What You
Have Drafted 98 Working Hard 99 Catching Up and Getting Down to Writing 100 Taking Notes: Reading Is an Active Process
B.
Finishing
101 Finishing a Project
102 Getting Done 103 "My
Professors Keep Asking for Revisions of My Dissertation Draft" 104 Have You Spent Too Long a Time in Graduate
School? 105 It Takes Twice As Long As
You Planned 106 Focusing on Getting Done 107 Do It Now: Displacement 108 Projects: Doing Better without More Work;
Exemplary Faculty 109 Scut Work and
Publicizing Your Research 110 Moving to
Assistant Professorship
C.
Reference Letters
111 Asking for Reference Letters 112 Writing Academic Reference Letters
Chapter 4. Getting the First Job (#113 -150)
A. Fundamentals
113 Now That You Have Your Doctorate 114 What Do I Do with My Degree? 115 Visibility in Graduate School 116 Job Talks
117 Giving a Talk at a Conference
118 Speaking, Moderating, Commenting
119 Job Talk Advice 120 The
Content of Your Talk 121 Job Search 122 Job Hunting 123 Getting That Job Interview 124 Looking for a Job 125 The Academic Labor Market 126 Finding a Job in a Particular Locale 127 A Market?
128 Being on the Job Market 129 Being
in the Job Market, Always 130 Job Search
Advice 131 Seeking a Job at a Meeting 132 Application Letter for a Job
B.
Job Talks and Seminar Presentations
133 Compelling Presentations 134 What Makes a Terrific Job Talk? 135 Giving Your Best Talks and Oral
Presentations 136 Brief Presentation at
a Scholarly Meeting 137 Ways of
Surviving a Job Interview 138 Preparing
for the Job Search 139 Job Interviews 140 Interviewing for a Job, or in Fieldwork
C. No
Offers?
141 You Did Not Get a Job Offer . . . 142 No Job This Year? 143 The Day Job
D. You
Have an Offer
144 The Job Market: Counteroffers and Market Signaling 145 Bargaining for Jobs and Fellowships 146 Jobs: Negotiating for a Position
E.
Hiring
147 Mistakes in Hiring
148 Hiring the Strongest in Any
Field 149 Quality: One A is Better Than Two
Bs, unless You Have a C Average 150 Hire
Smart, Keep Smart, Tenure Smart
Chapter 5. Junior and Probationary
Faculty (#151 -174)
A. Fundamentals
151 Doing Your Best in a Bureaucracy 152 Focus and Direction in Your First Job 153 An Informal Guide for New Faculty Members 154 Justifying Your Work 155 Your Personal Best 156 Assistant Professors: How to Survive 157 Increasing Quality at Tenure Time 158 We Want You to Succeed 159 Junior Faculty Advice 160 Mentoring and Junior Faculty Leaves 161 By Year 2<1/2> 162 Subpar Performance 163 Brief Guide for New Assistant Professors
164 Teaching Concerns 165 When Things Get Rocky in Your Department 166 Keeping Your Ears Open about Jobs
Elsewhere 167 Getting Job Offers from
Other Places Is Good for Your Home Institution
168 Taking Control of Your Career
B. Promotion
and Tenure
169 You, the Candidate, Are in Charge 170 What Do I Have to Do to Get Tenure? 171 How Did X Get Tenure, Five Years Ago,
When I Did Much More Than X Did?
C. Denial
172 When You've Been Denied Tenure 173 If You Are Denied Tenure, Promotion, or
Appointment--Unfairness 174 I Did Not
Get Promoted
Chapter 6. Grants, Fellowships, and
Other Pecuniary Resources (#175 -183)
175 Incentivizing Research
176 Applying for Grants, Fellowships
177 Raising Grant Monies to Do Your Work
178 Getting Grants 179 Do Not Do These
in Your Grant Application 180 Preparing
a Research Proposal 181 Grant-Getting 182 External Research Support Does Not
Corrupt 183 Low-Overhead Research
Dollars from Fellowships or Foundation Grants
Chapter 7. Your Career (#184 -219)
A. Fundamentals
184 You Are in Control of Your
Career, Your Grades, Your Promotion 185
Probationary Times 186 Building Depth in
Your Portfolio
B.
Awards
187 Recognition, Awards, External Offers 188 Awards, Grants, and Honorifics 189 Too Much Pressure Here? 190 Recognition, Academic Seriousness 191 Campaign for Recognition and Awards 192 Recognition--Awards
C.
Impact and Influence of Your Work
193 Impact and Influence
194 Impact Factors, Genuine Impact, Contribution 195 Increasing Your Impact: Limited Room at the
Top 196 Unrecognition 197 Journal Rankings: What Counts Is Your
Contribution to Scholarship 198 Productivity
in Academia 199 The Contributions Made by
Your Research Work 200 The Value of
Annual Reviews of Our Work 201 Writing for
Wider-Circulation Discipline-Wide Journals
202 Book Chapters
D.
Multi-Authored Work
203 Why Do So Many Papers in Some Fields Have So Many
Authors? They Do Not Seem to Be Much Stronger Than Papers in That Same Field with
One or Two Authors 204 Counting Papers and
Books and Citations--Compared to What? 205
Teams and Interdisciplinary Work 206 Multiple
Authorship, Order of Names, Contribution
207 Collaborative and Team Work: The CV
208 Multiple Authorship: How to Count Work 209 Individual vs. Collective Research
Efforts
E. Your
CV
210 Evaluating Your Contributions and CV 211 De-Fluffing Your CV 212 Your CV, for Those Who Are Just Getting
Started 213 Stupid Résumé Tricks 214 Fluff in the CV 215 Curriculum Vitae--Format
F. Changing
Jobs
216 Should You Change Universities? Yes! 217 Leaving Your University Position: Living
Well Is the Best Revenge 218 Reinventing
the Faculty 219 Why Do Faculty Leave?
Chapter 8. Tenure and Promotion (#220 -290)
A. Fundamentals
220 What Tenure Means (for Lay Persons) 221 Lessons Drawn from Reading Hundreds of
Dossiers 222 Encouraging an Even Stronger Faculty in the Future 223 Promotion/Tenure/Appointment: Very Brief
Advice for All Involved 224 Getting
Tenured 225 Avoiding Turndowns, for
Tenure or Full Professor 226 The Rising
Tide: Your Personal Best Has to Be Superior, Not Marginal 227 Promotion Guidelines 228 Professional Competence and Trust 229 Thinking about Your Promotion 230 Do What You Must Do 231 Promotion: WYSIWYG 232 Tenure Judgments: If You Have Any Doubt, Vote No 233 Avoiding Tenure Mistakes 234 Making Multi-Million-Dollar Long-Term
Capital Investments: Tenure, Promotion 235
From a Member of the University Promotion Committee 236 Quality Judgments and Letters of
Reference 237 "If I Did So Little I
Would Be Ashamed of Myself" 238
Marginal Is Not Good Enough 239 Your
Department's Credibility Is on the Line 240
Statistical Prediction for Better Tenure Decisions? Moneyball and Kahneman's "Cognitive
Illusion" 241 Would You Want This Professor and Candidate for Promotion
or Tenure Teaching Your Child? 242 From
Members of the University Promotion Committee
243 Being Conned When
Reading Promotion and Hiring Letters and Dossiers 244 Tenure for
Clinicians, Practitioners, and Teachers 245
Judging Work beyond My Ken 246 Doggie
Comes Up for Tenure 247 Hiring Grisha
Perelman with Tenure 248 Ethos of
Promotion and Tenure in a Strengthening Institution 249 Tenure Decision Errors 250 Tenure Traps
B. The
Dossier
251 If You Are Chair of a Promotion or Tenure Committee 252 An Ideal Dossier 253 Tell Us What Is Going On 254 More Stuff from Reading Tenure Dossiers 255 Rhetoric of Promotion Committee Reports 256 Playing Chicken with the Provost and the
University Promotion and Tenure Committee
257 Alt-A and Subprime Appointments and Promotions: Meltdown 258 Avoiding Getting Stuck with a Lemon 259 What Makes a Strong Tenure or Promotion
Case? 260 Dossiers: Avoiding Disaster 261 Peer Institutions 262 Preparing Promotion Dossiers 263 Do Not Embarrass the Football Coach 264 Real Professors' Performance 265 Blowing Your Own Horn 266 Making Your Case for Promotion or Tenure 267 Personal Statements at Tenure and
Promotion Time 268 The Promotion Bubble 269 Expectations for Tenure: Is There Enough
Room at the Top? 270 Time in Rank 271 What
Counts for Tenure and Promotion 272 Dossier
Illusions 273 An Epitome of Concerns re Tenure
and Promotion 274 Promotion Dossiers as
Excuses 275 Benchmarking, Reviews,
Citations, and the Disciplines 276
Preparing Promotion Dossier Materials 277 What Is the Contribution? 278 Writing Your Personal Statement 279 Promotion
Dossier Checklist for Preparers 280 A
Credible Dossier 281 Ringer Letters,
Weak Trajectory, Uncollegial Behavior, Early Full Professorship 282 Promotion Dossiers Can Self-Destruct 283 Dossier Phenomenology 284 Problems with Promotion Dossiers 285 Excuses You Really Do Not Want to Employ 286 Might Departments or Schools Be Allowed
to Make Their Own Tenure Decisions?
C.
More on Denial
287 Unfairness 288 You Don't Want Your Colleagues to Write This
Sort of Letter to the Provost 289 Tenure
Due Processes 290 What to Do If You've
Been Denied Tenure
Chapter 9. After Tenure--Associate
and Full Professorship (#291 -307)
291 What Did You Do This Summer? 292 You've Just Been Promoted by the Skin of
Your Teeth 293 You've Just Been Promoted
or Tenured 294 For Associate Professors:
Grants, PIship, Fellowships 295
Bureaucratic Drag 296 Laying Golden
Eggs: Long-Time-in-Rank Associate Professors
297 Getting Sandbagged and Slowed Down
298 Getting to Full Professor--Stoking the Fire in the Belly 299 Becoming a Full Professor 300 Promotion to Full: Your Personal
Statement 301 Social Promotion 302 Promotion to Full Professor 303 What to Say to Senior Faculty When the
University Is on the Make 304 No Faculty
Member Is beyond Redemption 305
Retirement: Moving to Another Role Elsewhere
306 Appointing Star Professors and Those with Unconventional Careers 307 Senior Faculty Visibility
Chapter 10. Scholarly and Academic
Ethos (#308 -391)
A. Fundamentals
308 No One Ever Does It on Their Own 309 <SC>send<\>
and Die 310 Trapped in a Seminar 311 Feynman on Conference Disasters 312 What You Should Have Learned in Graduate
School 313 Sabbatical Means Always
Having to Say No 314 Taking One's Own
Advice 315 Machiavellian Advice 316 Human Tragedy and Compassion 317 Resilience, Focus, Direction,
Perseverance 318 Patience, Resilience,
Courage 319 Is There a Substitute for Brains? 320 Untreated Illness and Work 321 Failure and Bouncing Back 322 Creativity 323 Whatever You Need Is in the Room. Do Not
Go Home without Testing Out Your Ideas 324
Pronto Prototyping 325 Basics for
Getting the Work Done 326 E-mail and
Your Reputation 327 We Get Paid to Show
Up 328 A Deeper Career 329 Judgment and Maturity 330 Doing What You Are Supposed to Do 331 Awkward Letters and Memoranda
B. Excellence
332 Excellence and Politics: Playing in the Big Leagues 333 The Rules of the Game 334 Reputation: You Have Only One Chance 335 Goldman Sachs Described 336 They're Judging You All the Time 337 The Impression You Make on Others 338 Your Reputation Is on the Line Each Time
You Make an Appearance 339 Work That
Matters 340 Academic Assets, Reliability 341 Fairness and Rewards 342 Pushing for Excellence and Preeminence 343 Excellence--How to Make the Football Team
Proud of the University 344 For Faculty
Who Want to Do Well 345 Playing at an
Extremely High Level 346 Bonuses 347 Global Warming of the Quality Temperature 348 Your Comparative Advantage 349 Fame Too Late 350 Whether the Work Is Any Good at All 351 Craftsmanship 352 Annual Reviews 353 No Complaints 354 Thanking Everyone
C. On
Time
355 How to Be on Time
356 Nobody Procrastinates Their Way to the Top 357 On Time vs. Late
D.
Overloaded?
358 Focus 359
Overloaded? 360 When the Task or Work
(the Dissertation, the Book) Is Too Much
361 May, June, July, and August 362
Time 363 Time Management 364 Scholarship and Community
E.
The Research Enterprise
365 Success in This Life
366 Scholarship and Opinions 367 Scholarship
Is a Competitive, Resource-Driven ($, Time) Enterprise 368 Politics: When You Have No Influence 369 Academic Tantrums 370 The Cost of Gaming the System 371 High-Concept Titles of Papers and Books 372 Strategy
373 Scholarship 374 The Scholarly
Bottom Line 375 Focused Work 376 Reliability 377 Recognition: (Specialization <RARROW>
Productivity) <TIMES> Visibility = Compensation 378 Grade Inflation? 379 Rejection and Recovery 380 Taking Charge in Group Work 381 What Counts in Scholarship 382 Scholarship: Scholia, Advances 383 Do We Read What Is Published in the
Journals and Presses We Publish In? 384
The Research Literature 385 Rereading
the Hard Parts of a Source
F.
Controversy
386 Bureaucratic Survival
387 Reviews of Your Book or Article
388 Accusations and Innocence 389
You're 42, a Postdoc: What to Do Next? 390
If English Is Not Your Native Work Language
391 Finding Out about the World in a Reliable Way: Fishing for What's
Going On
Chapter 11. Stronger Faculties and
Stronger Institutions (#392 -420)
A. Fundamentals
392 College Admissions
393 Attracting Strong Graduate Students
394 Market Signaling 395 You Want
a Faculty That's Hard to Keep 396
Ranking Departments 397 Tenure Markets 398 The Ones That Got Away 399 Propinquity Learning 400 Showing Up 401 Learning to Think 402 The Resistance of the Entrenched and
Preserving the Institution's Heritage 403
Surviving and Thriving in the Research University of ~2025 404 Standards and Thriving 405 Late Bloomers 406 Why I Should Not Attend Most Seminars 407 Awarding Chairs and Honorary
Professorships 408 What Do Deans Do? 409 FICO Scores for Deans/Departments: Trust
in Practice 410 When a University Gets
Stronger 411 Family Friendliness 412 Campus Life 413 Do You Wear Knife-Proof Undergarments?
Academic Contest and Dialectic
B.
A Different University
414 A Low-Cost, Low-Overhead University 415 Authority
C.
Mentoring
416 Mentoring and Dementoring 417 Faculty Mentoring Faculty 418 Coaching Professors 419 Mentoring
420 Tormentoring
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