Managing Your Academic Career: A Guide to Re-Envision Mid-Career

This book is a comprehensive guide for mid-career professionals in the academy, providing step-by-step guidance to re-imagine the mid-career stage and achieve career goals, regardless of profession. It draws on higher education, organizational studies, and human resource fields to offer inspiration and reality checks for mid-career faculty and those supporting them.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 29 April 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The ultimate guide for mid-career professionals in academia, this comprehensive book offers a step-by-step roadmap to reimagining the mid-career stage, regardless of career aspirations, whether aiming for full professorship or an administrative path. Drawing upon insights from higher education, organizational studies, and human resource fields, it provides essential guidance for scholars of faculty work, faculty developers, mid-career faculty members, and institutional leaders to establish a solid foundation for designing diverse programming tailored to the mid-career stage.

Through captivating stories, practical examples, and a wealth of literature and resources, this work serves as a source of inspiration and reality checks for mid-career faculty members and the individuals responsible for supporting them. Readers will gain valuable insights to:

Identify their career goals and develop actionable plans for achieving them.

Assess the gaps in needed skills, tools, and experiences required to support these goals.

Strategically manage the process of acquiring new skills, tools, strategies, and resources to navigate towards their desired destination.

Higher education faculty, administrators, and other academic leaders will be empowered to take charge of the mid-career stage by leveraging the comprehensive resources, strategies, and tools presented in this book. They will be able to build, implement, and assess robust mid-career faculty development programs that foster growth, resilience, and success for their faculty members.

By embracing the knowledge and strategies outlined in this book, mid-career professionals in academia can embark on a transformative journey, unlocking new opportunities for professional growth and fulfillment. Whether seeking promotion, exploring new roles within their institution, or pursuing entrepreneurial ventures, this resource will equip them with the tools and knowledge to navigate the mid-career stage with confidence and purpose.

Weight: 272g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032062396