Navigating Academia: A Guide for Women and Minority STEM Faculty

Offers a much needed roadmap for all who work in academia, especially women and minorities seeking success in the academy

Pauline Mosley (Edited by), S. Keith Hargrove (Edited by)

9780128019849

Paperback, published 9 December 2014

216 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 1.5 cm, 0.32 kg

"Mosley and Hargrove have exposed some important truths about higher education in their compelling new book.  Their research is thorough, their anecdotes are instructive and their insight is invaluable to anyone who is attempting to understand or improve the success of women and people of color in the college setting.  Their understanding of the minority experience is particularly striking." --Lawrence Otis Graham, Esq., author of Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class and Member of the Club: Life in a Racially Polarized World

Approx.192 pages

Preface Section I. Issues Chapter 1. The Issues and Demographic Data Chapter 2. Issues Confronting Athletic Administrators Section II. Institutional and Societal Cultures Chapter 3. Institutional and Societal Cultures Section III. Career Pathways Chapter 4. A Tale of Two Professors Chapter 5. A Career in Science Chapter 6. Creating My Own Path Chapter 7. Pathways in Athletic Administrators Section IV. Transitioning Chapter 8. From Student to Full Professor Chapter 9. From Faculty to Chair Section V. Mentoring Chapter 10. Mentoring Chapter 11. African American Researchers in Computing Sciences: Expanding the Pool of Participation Section VI. Professor Support Networks Chapter 12. Professor Support Networks

Subject Areas: Life sciences: general issues [PSA], Higher & further education, tertiary education [JNM]