{"id":3727,"date":"2004-01-14T00:31:32","date_gmt":"2004-01-14T00:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2013-10-16T09:19:06","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T09:19:06","slug":"so_you_want_to_become_a_professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/so_you_want_to_become_a_professor\/","title":{"rendered":"So you want to become a Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Respondents give high marks to their history programs for \u201cacademic rigor,\u201d and training in \u201ccritical thinking\u201d and \u201cdata analysis and synthesis.\u201d They also identified areas to target for improvement, including training in writing and publishing reports and articles and in how to teach, as well as providing concrete feedback to students on their progress, socializing students into the academic community and having a diverse student population. Surveyed historians urged programs to address the fact that the academic labor market cannot absorb all the doctorate holders, to be aware of opportunities for historians outside academia, and to recognize the value to society of historians working in diverse employment sectors. Even knowing what they know now about the history job market, more then 80% of respondents would get a PhD in history again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nerad, M., Aanerud, R. &amp;, Cerny, J. (2004). So You Want to Become a Professor! Lessons from the\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"color: #000000;\">PhDs\u2014Ten Years Later<\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0Study. in Donald H. Wulff, Ann Austin, &amp; Associates, Eds.,\u00a0\u00a0Paths to the Professoriate: Strategies for <\/span><em style=\"color: #000000;\">Enriching \u00a0the Preparation of Future Faculty<\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.\u00a0\u00a0San Francisco: Jossey-Bass<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Download:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/so-you-want-to-become-a-professor.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So you want to become a professor<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Respondents give high marks to their history programs for \u201cacademic rigor,\u201d and training in \u201ccritical thinking\u201d and \u201cdata analysis and synthesis.\u201d They also identified areas to target for improvement, including training in writing and publishing reports and articles and in how to teach, as well as providing concrete feedback to students on their progress, socializing students into the academic community and having a diverse student population. Surveyed historians urged programs to address the fact that the academic labor market cannot&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/so_you_want_to_become_a_professor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So you want to become a Professor<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[358,7],"tags":[8,409,429],"class_list":["post-3727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cirge-publication","category-publications","tag-academia","tag-phd-career-track","tag-professors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3730,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions\/3730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}