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This invaluable source book offers guidance, support and advice for those contemplating or involved in academic careers. The contributions provide rich, personal, sometimes poignant and often humorous accounts of shared and unique experiences of those in the world of academia.
Rounding Corners: An African American Female Scholar's Pretenure Experiences
Rounding Corners: An African American Female Scholar's Pretenure Experiences
The pretenure phase of career represents for me a period of establishing competence within my field of organizational behavior. Beyond establishing competence, I feel a strong need to establish a niche within the field with which I am comfortable, build competencies within this niche, and become known to others as a legitimate scholar vis-à-vis these specific areas of competence. With respect to teaching, I want to form meaningful relationships with students and to feel that I am developing a unique style as an educator. Within my local/departmental community, my goal is to have a voice that contributes to the community as a whole. A significant part of ...