Candid Advice for New Faculty Members: A Guide to Getting Tenure and Advancing Your Academic Career

"If you want to achieve tenure, you should know a bit more about what it means and why it exists, and its benefits. All too often, even faculty don't understand why tenure is important."

Thus begins the Preface of the first edition of Candid Advice for New Faculty Members, the most comprehensive "how to" guide for graduate students, post-docs, and junior faculty across a variety of academic disciplines. Now, in the Second Edition of this award-winning volume, Marybeth Gasman has added a var...