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The Academic MarketplaceGetting a Job

• Curriculum vitae

• Publish now!

• Finding opportunities – use all means,

• Especially email, phone calls from your advisor

• Letters of reference

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Interviewing

• Defending your thesis

• How to interview individual faculty

• Ask to meet with students

• Tell what you would like to teach• Advanced course

• Bread and butter middle courses

• Introductory courses

• Use their course numbers, titles!

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Tenure and All That

• Publish or perish. •What counts, and how much?

• Teaching matters, too.• “He who would save his life (career) will

lose it,• and he who will lose his life ... will find it.”• Sometimes the system goes badly wrong.

e.g., Iverson, Salton, etc. at Harvard

• There is life after tenure denial.

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Miscellaneous Resources• Re faculty salaries, see

http://www.cra.org/statistics, pages 12-13.

• Re criteria for quality, see my document, “Criteria for University Faculty

• Re promotion and tenure, see the UNC-CH Chancellor’s Advisory Committee document, “Presenting an Effective Promotion/Tenure Dossier”