Behind The Academic Curtain

Author : Frank F. Furstenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226066240

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Behind the Academic Curtain by Frank F. Furstenberg Pdf

More people than ever are going to graduate school to seek a PhD these days. When they get there, they discover a bewildering environment: a rapid immersion in their discipline, a keen competition for resources, and uncertain options for their future, whether inside or outside of academia. Life with a PhD can begin to resemble an unsolvable maze. In Behind the Academic Curtain, Frank F. Furstenberg offers a clear and user-friendly map to this maze. Drawing on decades of experience in academia, he provides a comprehensive, empirically grounded, and, most important of all, practical guide to academic life. While the greatest anxieties for PhD candidates and postgrads are often centered on getting that tenure-track dream job, each stage of an academic career poses a series of distinctive problems. Furstenberg divides these stages into five chapters that cover the entire trajectory of an academic life, including how to make use of a PhD outside of academia. From finding the right job to earning tenure, from managing teaching loads to conducting research, from working on committees to easing into retirement, he illuminates all the challenges and opportunities an academic can expect to encounter. Each chapter is designed for easy consultation, with copious signposts, helpful suggestions, and a bevy of questions that all academics should ask themselves throughout their career, whether at a major university, junior college, or a nonacademic organization. An honest and up-to-date portrayal of how this life really works, Behind the Academic Curtain is an essential companion for any scholar, at any stage of his or her career.

Author : Archibald MacIntosh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Students
ISBN : UCAL:$B67167

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Behind the Academic Curtain by Archibald MacIntosh Pdf

Author : Piotr Sitarski,Maria B. Garda,Krzysztof Jajko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8382201997

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New Media Behind the Iron Curtain by Piotr Sitarski,Maria B. Garda,Krzysztof Jajko Pdf

Author : Gregory D. Booth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 019971665X

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Behind the Curtain by Gregory D. Booth Pdf

Beginning in the 1930s, men and a handful of women came from India's many communities-Marathi, Parsi, Goan, North Indian, and many others--to Mumbai to work in an industry that constituted in the words of some, "the original fusion music." They worked as composers, arrangers, assistants, and studio performers in one of the most distinctive popular music and popular film cultures on the planet. Today, the songs played by Mumbai's studio musicians are known throughout India and the Indian diaspora under the popular name "Bollywood," but the musicians themselves remain, in their own words, "behind the curtain"--the anonymous and unseen performers of one of the world's most celebrated popular music genres. Now, Gregory D. Booth offers a compelling account of the Bollywood film music industry from the perspective of the musicians who both experienced and shaped its history. In a rare insider's look at the process of musical production from the late 1940s to the mid 1990s, before the advent of digital recording technologies, Booth explains who these unknown musicians were and how they came to join the film music industry. On the basis of a fascinating set of first-hand accounts from the musicians themselves, he reveals how the day-to-day circumstances of technology and finance shaped both the songs and the careers of their creator and performers. Booth also unfolds the technological, cultural, and industrial developments that led to the enormous studio orchestras of the 1960s-90s as well as the factors which ultimately led to their demise in contemporary India. Featuring an extensive companion website with video interviews with the musicians themselves, Behind the Curtain is a powerful, ground-level view of this globally important music industry.

Author : Mats Alvesson,Yiannis Gabriel,Roland Paulsen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191090783

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Return to Meaning by Mats Alvesson,Yiannis Gabriel,Roland Paulsen Pdf

This book argues that we are currently witnessing not merely a decline in the quality of social science research, but the proliferation of meaningless research, of no value to society, and modest value to its authors - apart from securing employment and promotion. The explosion of published outputs, at least in social science, creates a noisy, cluttered environment which makes meaningful research difficult, as different voices compete to capture the limelight even briefly. Older, more significant contributions are easily neglected, as the premium is to write and publish, not read and learn. The result is a widespread cynicism among academics on the value of academic research, sometimes including their own. Publishing comes to be seen as a game of hits and misses, devoid of intrinsic meaning and value, and of no wider social uses whatsoever. Academics do research in order to get published, not to say something socially meaningful. This is what we view as the rise of nonsense in academic research, which represents a serious social problem. It undermines the very point of social science. This problem is far from 'academic'. It affects many areas of social and political life entailing extensive waste of resources and inflated student fees as well as costs to tax-payers. Part two of the book offers a range of proposals aimed at restoring meaning at the heart of social research and drawing social science back address the major problems and issues that face our societies.

Author : Julia Miller Vick,Jennifer S. Furlong,Rosanne Lurie
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812223408

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The Academic Job Search Handbook by Julia Miller Vick,Jennifer S. Furlong,Rosanne Lurie Pdf

For more than twenty years, job seekers have relied on The Academic Job Search Handbook for help in their search for faculty positions. The new fifth edition provides updated advice and addresses current topics in today's competitive market.

Author : Jeffrey Alan Lockwood
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780826358073

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Behind the Carbon Curtain by Jeffrey Alan Lockwood Pdf

Exploring censorship imposed by corporate wealth and power, this book focuses on the energy industry in Wyoming, where coal, oil, and gas are pillars of the economy. The author examines how governmental bodies and public institutions have suppressed the expression of ideas that conflict with the financial interests of those who profit from fossil fuels. He reveals the ways in which university administrations, art museums, education boards, and research institutes have been coerced into destroying artwork, abandoning studies, modifying curricula, and firing employees. His book is an eloquent story of the conflict between private wealth and free speech. Providing more of the nation's energy than any other state, Wyoming is a sociopolitical lens that magnifies the conflicts in the American West. But the issues are relevant to any community that is dependent on a dominant industry--and wherever the liberties of citizens and the ethics of public officials are at risk.

Author : Maya Rakitova
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1988065135

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Behind the Red Curtain by Maya Rakitova Pdf

"Swept up in the drama of the Bolshevik revolution, Joseph Stalin's Communist Party purges and World War II, the Rakitova family faces innumerable obstacles to survival. But young Maya knows only that her father is gone and that she must hide her Jewish identity. With what Maya calls "uncommon courage, " her mother fights to protect her, relying on the kindness of friends and strangers, and the tenuous hope that Maya can keep her identity a secret."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Author : Priscilla Mary Roberts
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0804755027

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Behind the Bamboo Curtain by Priscilla Mary Roberts Pdf

Based on new archival research in many countries, this volume broadens the context of the U.S. intervention in Vietnam. Its primary focus is on relations between China and Vietnam in the mid-twentieth century; but the book also deals with China's relations with Cambodia, U.S. dealings with both China and Vietnam, French attitudes toward Vietnam and China, and Soviet views of Vietnam and China. Contributors from seven countries range from senior scholars and officials with decades of experience to young academics just finishing their dissertations. The general impact of this work is to internationalize the history of the Vietnam War, going well beyond the long-standing focus on the role of the United States.

Author : Alfread A. Reisch
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9786155225239

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Hot Books in the Cold War by Alfread A. Reisch Pdf

This study reveals the hidden story of the secret book distribution program to Eastern Europe financed by the CIA during the Cold War. At its height between 1957 and 1970, the book program was one of the least known but most effective methods of penetrating the Iron Curtain, reaching thousands of intellectuals and professionals in the Soviet Bloc. Reisch conducted thorough research on the key personalities involved in the book program, especially the two key figures: S. S. Walker, who initiated the idea of a ?mailing project,? and G. C. Minden, who developed it into one of the most effective political and psychological tools of the Cold War. The book includes excellent chapters on the vagaries of censorship and interception of books by communist authorities based on personal letters and accounts from recipients of Western material. It will stand as a testimony in honor of the handful of imaginative, determined, and hard-working individuals who helped to free half of Europe from mental bondage and planted many of the seeds that germinated when communism collapsed and the Soviet bloc disintegrated.

Author : Kevin D. Haggerty,Aaron Doyle
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226281063

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57 Ways to Screw Up in Grad School by Kevin D. Haggerty,Aaron Doyle Pdf

Don’t think about why you’re applying. Select a topic for entirely strategic reasons. Choose the coolest supervisor. Write only to deadlines. Expect people to hold your hand. Become “that” student. When it comes to a masters or PhD program, most graduate students don’t deliberately set out to fail. Yet, of the nearly 500,000 people who start a graduate program each year, up to half will never complete their degree. Books abound on acing the admissions process, but there is little on what to do once the acceptance letter arrives. Veteran graduate directors Kevin D. Haggerty and Aaron Doyle have set out to demystify the world of advanced education. Taking a wry, frank approach, they explain the common mistakes that can trip up a new graduate student and lay out practical advice about how to avoid the pitfalls. Along the way they relate stories from their decades of mentorship and even share some slip-ups from their own grad experiences. The litany of foul-ups is organized by theme and covers the grad school experience from beginning to end: selecting the university and program, interacting with advisors and fellow students, balancing personal and scholarly lives, navigating a thesis, and creating a life after academia. Although the tone is engagingly tongue-in-cheek, the lessons are crucial to anyone attending or contemplating grad school. 57 Ways to Screw Up in Grad School allows you to learn from others’ mistakes rather than making them yourself.

Author : Petr Bubeníček
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319409610

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Subversive Adaptations by Petr Bubeníček Pdf

This book deals with film adaptations of literary works created in Communist Czechoslovakia between 1954 and 1969, such as The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (Zeman 1958), Marketa Lazarová (Vláčil 1967), and The Joke (Jireš 1969). Bubeníček treats a historically significant period around which myths and misinformation have arisen. The book is broad in scope and examines aesthetic, political, social, and cultural issues. It sets out to disprove the notion that the state-controlled film industry behind the Iron Curtain produced only aesthetically uniform works pandering to official ideology. Bubeníček’s main aim is to show how the political situation of Communist Czechoslovakia moulded the film adaptations created there, but also how these same works, in turn, shaped the sociocultural conditions of the 1950s and the 1960s.

Author : Herb Childress
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226359281

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The PhDictionary by Herb Childress Pdf

This is a book of advice for students considering doctoral programs and doctoral students considering faculty life. It is framed as a glossary of about 150 terms that author Herb Childress, as a first-generation student, wishes that he had known and understood as he applied for and completed his PhD and went into the academic job market. The guide examines the practices of doctoral education and faculty life through entries that illuminate terms such as buyout, edited volume, and FERPA; so many things that most academics learned somewhere along the way and forget that others don't know. The alphabetical reference format enables readers to turn directly to the topic in question and find some borrowed wisdom. Each entry features a little storytelling, then some larger context, and leaves readers able to put on the mask of the capable scholar even though they feel like impostors. Every time they hear a term they feel they ought to know, it is here. The book is often funny as well, attempting to offer both encouragement and reality to students facing unconscionable odds as they search for safe harbor. As more than half of all college instructors are now adjuncts, the questions about an academic career are changing, and there are now fewer reliable answersand answers. Herb Childress s volume promises to be a trusted companion to many a graduate student, aspiring academic, and adjunct professor. "

Author : Justin L. Bauer,Yoo Jung Kim,Andrew H. Zureick,Daniel K. Lee
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226198880

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What Every Science Student Should Know by Justin L. Bauer,Yoo Jung Kim,Andrew H. Zureick,Daniel K. Lee Pdf

Every year, six million students enter college with the intention of becoming a science major by the time they graduate, only 60% of them will actually follow through. This means that close to 2.4 million students, every year, drop out of the science track. According to the New York Times, roughly 40% of students planning science majors either end up switching their major or fail to get any degree. Furthermore, aspiring pre-medical students (who comprise a large percentage of the freshmen class at most colleges, but who may not be science majors) often cite frustrations with science coursework/grading as a main motivation for changing their career plans. What Every College Science Student Should Know teaches students everything they need to know about how to succeed in school and after graduation. It s a portable guide and mentor that teaches study skills, course selection and mastery, how to do scientific research, what to expect from majors, how to find mentors, and how to apply learned skills to career development and enjoyment. Written by recent college graduates for entering college students and seniors in high school, What Every College Science Student Should Know is an invaluable resource for those who want to pursue a science degree, and it s also an inspiring narrative of remarkable students who are already changing the world through science."

Author : Paris H. Grey,David G. Oppenheimer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226825410

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Getting In by Paris H. Grey,David G. Oppenheimer Pdf

"For undergraduates in STEMM fields, the experience of working in a lab or other research position has become an increasingly important credential for many career paths. Landing such a position can be difficult, with hundreds of applicants for perhaps a dozen openings in the most competitive cases. But finding a meaningful research experience also involves knowing what to look for and how to present yourself effectively, skills that represent a hidden curriculum for many students. In this book, an expert lab manager and a longtime principal investigator share their secrets for securing these positions, both in summer undergraduate research programs and in labs operating during the academic year. They offer advice on the application and interview processes for undergraduates who often do not know how to prepare appropriately professional emails, cover letters, CVs, and interview responses. They address students in a wide variety of STEMM fields at both research-intensive universities and primarily undergraduate institutions. And they focus on how first-generation college students and those from low-income backgrounds and communities historically underrepresented in science can learn to negotiate the hidden curriculum and claim their place in research settings. This new edition also serves as a companion to the authors' social accounts, including @YouInTheLab and @TheLabMentor, where they offer advice on lab life at many levels"--