Becoming a Professor is designed primarily for graduate and undergraduate students and others instructors, lecturers and new tenure-track professors contemplating careers as professors in post-secondary education at colleges, institutes, and universities. The book identifies kinds of higher education institutions, and types of teaching positions along with the nature of each positions responsibilities and advantages and disadvantages. It explains how graduate students can promote their future as faculty members while they are still in graduate school and suggests ways to find suitable faculty positions and succeed at the application and interview process. The book also addresses a range of other matters that influence careers in higher education once a candidate is hired in a faculty position such matters as the tenure and promotion process and how to succeed in other aspects of the professorial role (research, service, teaching), and as well as how to avoid pitfalls (political and ethical aspects) in such positions.

Marie Iding (PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara) is a professor of educationalpsychology University of Hawaii at Mnoa, where she has taught for over twenty years. She has also taught, and presented research or workshops in diverse locations around the world, including American Samoa, Chuuk (Federated States of Micronesia), Vietnam, Germany, Switzerland, South Africa, Kenya, Spain, Portugal, Fiji, Australia, Jamaica, Poland and Scotland.

R. Murray Thomas (PhD, Stanford University) is a professor emeritus of educational psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he also directed the program in International Education. His list of professional publications exceeds 400, including 59 books for which he served as author, coauthor, or editor.

Preface
Chapter 1: Higher Educations Significant Contexts
Part I: Preparing to Become a Professor
Chapter 2: Types of Higher Education Institutions
Chapter 3: Types of Teaching Positions
Chapter 4: Profiting from Graduate School
Chapter 5: Search Committees, CVs, Interviews, and Job Talks
Part II: On-the-Job: Research/Creativity, Teaching, and Service Roles
Chapter 6: Publishing, Performing, and Products
Chapter 7: Teaching
Chapter 8: Service Obligations
Part III: Influential Issues
Chapter 9: Ethical and Legal Matters
Chapter 10: Professorial Politics
Chapter 11: Promotion and Tenure
Part IV: Postscript
Chapter 12: The Future: Careers in Higher Education
References
Index