Teaching Preparation
Online
- Academia Exchange Network
- Academic360 - Job search database maintained by Internet Employment Linkage, Inc.
- Academic Careers - MIT Career Office
- Academic Careers Online - Includes faculty, research, post doc, adjunct, administrative, and senior management positions at (community) colleges, universities, and research institutes around the world.
- Academic Job Interview Advice - by Mary Corbin Sies, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, 1998
- The Academic Job Search Handbook - Mary Morris Heiberger, Julia MillerVick, 1996 (Run a title search)
- Academic Keys for Engineering - Most extensive online database for jobs in academia, includes links to numerous funding agencies, government research laboratories, and professional societies
- After the Offer, Before the Deal: Negotiating a First Academic Job - Chris M. Golde, Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors, 1999
- The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU)
- Beating the Numbers Game: Effective Teaching in Large Classes - Richard M. Felder, Department of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, 1997
- Best practice in college teaching - Tom Drummond, North Seattle Community College, 1994, 2002
- Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) - UM's resource for faculty and GSI's: grants for teaching, teaching strategies/disciplinary resources, multicultural teaching, instructional technology, evaluation/research, etc.
- The Chronicle of Higher Education
- The Chronicle of Higher Education Facts & Figures: Faculty Salaries Constructing a Syllabus - Michael J. V. Woolcock, Brown University (Date unknown)
- Cooperative Learning in Technical Courses: Procedures, Pitfalls and Payoffs Deliberations - A magazine on teaching and learning in higher education
- Department of Education Developing a Teaching Portfolio - The Office of Faculty and TA Development, The Ohio State University
- Effective Teaching - Richard M. Felder, Department of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, 1994
- Faculty for the Future - The only website dedicated to linking women and underrepresented minority candidates from engineering, science and business with faculty and research positions at universities across the country.
- Getting an Academic Job Michael Ernst, Personal website, 2000
- Higher Education Abstracts - A quarterly compilation of abstracts of journal articles, conference papers, research reports, and books pertaining to college students, faculty, administrators, and related topics in higher education published by The Claremont Graduate University.
- Index of Learning Styles - Richard M. Felder, Department of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University
- Instructional Technology at the College of Engineering
- Journal on Excellence in College Teaching - requires subscription to E-JECT
- Journals:
The following journals can be accessed electronically through the University of Michigan Library.
- Journal of Higher Education
- Research in Higher Education
- Review of Higher Education - Landing an Academic Job: The Process and the Pitfalls - Jonathan A. Dantzig, University of Illinois, 1995
- Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education - Richard M. Felder, Department of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, 2002
- A Longitudinal Study of Engineering Student Performance and Retention - Richard M. Felder, Department of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, 1995
- Matters of Style - Richard M. Felder, Department of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, 1996
- National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME)
- National Teaching and Learning Forum
- Navigating the Bumpy Road to Student-Centered Instruction - Richard M. Felder, Department of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, Rebecca Brent, School of Education,
East Carolina University, 1996 - "On the Role of the PhD or Post-doc Advisor in Your Search for a Professorship" - Thomas Zurbuchen, UM Departments of AE and AOSS
- Ph.D. Interview Preparation Guide for Positions in Academia - Trina Sego and Jef I. Richards, 1995
- Preparing Engineering Faculty of the Future: The NSF Engineering Education Scholars - Susan A. Ambrose and Cliff I. Davidson, Carnegie Mellon University (Date unknown)
- The Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education Reaching the Second Tier: Learning and Teaching Styles in College Science Education - Richard M. Felder, Department of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, 1993
- Resources for Engineering Educators
- Resources in Engineering and Science Education - Richard M. Felder, Department of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University
- Resources for Enhancing Education - Carnegie Mellon
- Service Without Over-commitment:
The Power of Saying No - Linda D. Tillman, PhD
Faculty Responsibilities and Professional Development - Natalie Alexander, Erwin Chemerinsky, and Sarah Pratt - Starting From Scratch: New Professors Share Their Experiences - Sophie L. Wilkinson, 2000
- Teaching Tips - An award-winning website on Faculty Development from Honolulu Community College
- Tomorrow's Professor Listserv - Stanford University Learning Lab, 2002
- Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement - by Lee Haugen, Center for Teaching Excellence, Iowa State University, 1998
Books
- * The Academic Job Search Handbook, by April Vahle Hamel, Mary Morris Heiberger, Julia Miller Vick, 2002
- Developing New and Junior Faculty, by Mary Deane Sorcinelli, Anne E. Austin, 1992
- Improving Your Classroom Teaching, by Maryellen Weimer, 1993
- Mastering the Techniques of Teaching, by Joseph Lowman, 1995
- The New Professor's Handbook, A Guide to Teaching and Research in Engineering and Science, by Cliff Davidson and Susan Ambrose, 1994
- * A Ph.D. is not enough! A guide to survival in science, by Peter Feibelman, 1993
- The Professor Business: A Teaching Primer for Faculty, by Barbara Flood and Joy Moll, 1990
- Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers, by Wilbert McKeachie, 1994
- * Tomorrow's Professor: Preparing for Academic Careers in Science and Engineering, by Richard Reis, 1997
- University Teaching: A Guide for Graduate Students, by Leo Lambert, 1996
- Who Needs These Headaches? Reflections on Teaching First-Year Engineering Students, by Richard Felder, 1997
* Available for lending from the Office of Graduate Education. Go to http://www.engin.umich.edu//students/services/support/library.html for more information.


