Contents
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Why Does This Book Exist?
ABD
Abstract
Academic freedom
Accreditation
Adjunct faculty
Administration
Administrative assistant
Administrator
Age
Alt-careers
Anonymity and Confidentiality
Assessment
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor
Author/Coauthor
Biographical sketch/statement
Book review
Burnout
Buyout
Candidate
Career
Chair
Children
Chronicle of Higher Education
Citational Power
Citational System/Style Guide
Cohort
Committees
Comprehensive Exams /Comps
Conference
Conference Interview
Contracts: Nine-, Ten-, and Twelve-Month
Course Development
Course/Teaching Evaluation
Cover Letter
Curriculum
Curriculum Vitae, or CV
Deadline
Dean
Defense
Department
Development/Advancement
Director
Discipline
Dissertation
Dissertation Chair/Committee
Doctorate
Dress code
Edited Volume
Editor
Elevator/Airplane Talk
E-mail
Emotional Balance
Endowment
Facilities
Faculty
Faculty Handbook
Failed Search
FERPA
First Generation
Grades
Graduate School, the
Grant/Grant Proposal
Gray Literature
GRE
Honorific
IACUC
Indirect Costs Rate/Overhead
Inside Candidate/Hire
Intellectual
Intellectual Property
Interdisciplinary
IRB (Institutional ReviewBoard)
Job Posting/Position Announcement
Job Search
Journal
Learning Management System/Course Management System
Library/Librarian
Literature Review
Master’s Degree
Mentor
Meritocracy
Method/Methodology
Minority Preference
National Search
Networking
Offer
Office
Office Hours
On-campus Interview
Online Journal
Open Access
Partner
Peer Review/Reviewer
Placement
Plenary
Popular Press/Trade Press
Portfolio
Postdoc
Poster/Poster Session
Presentation
President
Principal Investigator/PI
Priority/Prioritization
Professional Expenses
Professional Society
Professor
Program Rankings/Ratings
Provost
Publication
Publication Contract
Publisher (Trade/Academic)
R1 (and other Carnegie Designations)
Recommendation, Letter of
Rejection Letter
Research
Research Agenda
Research Assistant
Research Center
Research Misconduct
Research Question
Résumé Gap
Sabbatical
Scholarship / Scholarly Activity
Seminar
Short List/Shortlist
Sponsored Research
Start-up Costs
Teaching
Teaching Assistant/TA
Teaching Load
Telephone/Video Interview
Tenure/P&T
Tenure Track
Terminal Degree
TIAA-CREF
Time Suck
Travel Budget
Two-Body/Two-Career/Trailing-Spouse Problem
Two-Community Problem/The Two Cultures
Undergraduate Research
Union/Collective Bargaining Unit
White Paper
Afterthoughts
Bibliography
Index