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New Professors Only

"You should spend 70% of your time on research . . .

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​And the other 70% on teaching."
 

This is funny until you realize the person who just said this to you is your Department Chair.  And that he isn't laughing.
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You're juggling a ton of things as a new professor . . . including taking on a new identity.  These next years can be filled with incredible stress or incredible growth.  Part of this will be framing, but part will be if you have some of the tools and perspective of how others have successfully managed.  Even though we're in the business of research, there's no need reinvent the wheel.

Here are some resources to help you remove the big rocks that might slow down your progress on the road to new professor happiness.  If you run into other ones, let us know below, and collectively we might the experience to help  roll them out of the way. 

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​Click on the question below that's of most interest.

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Some Downloads and Websites that Might of Interest


Useful Advice to Write Papers

Tweets by WriteThatPhD

Useful Resources 

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Tips for New Faculty (UNC)

​Best Practices from New Profs at UNC


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Gregory Washington (George Mason)
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Nuts and Bolts of Tenure

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The Assistant Professor's Guide to the Galaxy
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George Bekey (Iowa State)

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Rick Reis (Stanford)
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Tomorrow's Professor

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www.vitae.ac.uk
Great tools for researchers



Interesting Social Media

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Share Your Insights and Ideas

What have you created or found that's been useful and could be helpful for other PhD students, new professors, or independent scholars?  ​
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  • A pdf handout on teaching 
  • Tips on surviving grad school
  • Favorite career-advice articles
  • A paper submission checklist 
  • A list of inspirational quotes
  • A productivity aid you use
  • ​​​​The goal-setting system you use
  • Your most useful go-to websites
  • Helpful academic How-to articles
  • A method to keep perspective or manage stress

​Send an email to AcademicsOnly@yahoo.com if you have something you think would be useful to share with others on this website
, or if you have ideas on how to make this more useful to you or your students.
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