Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Managing your Business and Reaching Tenure
1. Managing Your Personal Life
2. Managing Your Time
3. Setting Goals
4. The Interview Process for Early-Career Faculty
5. The First Paper
6. Navigating the Politics of Your Department
7. An Easy Tenure Decision and Your Dossier
8. Taking Care of Your Research
9. Best Practices for Proposal Preparation and Submission
Part 2: Empowering your Student + Building your Team = Successful Research
10. Know Your Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats
11. Building a Team
12. Building Trust
13. Training Your Students in Research
14. Giving Up Ownership
15. Be Generous but Genuine with Praise
16. Building Success Stories
17. Setting the Standard
18. Meeting with Your Students
Part 3: Life After Tenure: What to Expect from Associate to Full Professorship
19. Switching Gears
20. Research Portfolio for the Associate Professor
21. Service Portfolio for the Associate Professor
22. Your Spheres of Influence
23. For the International Professor and Student
Epilogue