From Student to Scholar: A Candid Guide to Becoming a Professor

Steven M. Cahn

Paper, 112 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14533-6
$14.95 / £10.95

September, 2008
Cloth, 112 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14532-9
$49.50 / £34.00

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Graduate School

2. The Dissertation

3. Networking

4. The First Interview

5. Dramatis Personae

6. The Second Interview

7. Tenure

8. Teaching

9. Service

10. Research

Finale

Epilogue

Index

About the Author

Related Subjects

• Philosophy
• Reference

About the Author

Steven M. Cahn is professor of philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he served as provost and vice president for academic affairs and then acting president. He has taught at Dartmouth, Vassar, New York University, the University of Rochester, and the University of Vermont, where he chaired the department of philosophy. His numerous books include Fate, Logic, and Time; The Eclipse of Excellence: A Critique of American Higher Education; and God, Reason, and Religion.

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