Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Getting and
                                Keeping a Job at a Private Liberal Arts College, but Your Graduate
                                Advisor Didn't Tell You

Hudson, William E.; Deardorff, Michelle D.; Githens, Marianne; Halva-Neubauer, Glen A.; Reeher, Grant; Seyb, Ronald P.

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“…Hiring practices differ based on the kind of institution ( Fleet et al , 2006 ); applicants to teaching-focused institutions are advised to emphasize their teaching experience, although these institutions still may require impressive publication and funding records ( Deardorff et al , 2001 ). No studies have systematically analyzed whether teaching styles differ between teaching-focused and research-focused institutions, but we expect that different emphases on pedagogical scholarship in hiring decisions across institutions make teaching-focused institutions more susceptible to changes in the pedagogical behavior and effort among newly hired faculty ( Figure 1 , filter 2).…”

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The Lecture Machine: A Cultural Evolutionary Model of Pedagogy in Higher Education

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Kline

Brownell

2018

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The benefits of student-centered active-learning approaches are well established, but this evidence has not directly translated into instructors adopting these evidence-based methods in higher education. To date, promoting and sustaining pedagogical change through different initiatives has proven difficult, but research on pedagogical change is advancing. To this end, we examine pedagogical behaviors through a cultural evolutionary model that stresses the global nature of the issue, the generational time that change requires, and complications introduced by academic career trajectories. We first provide an introduction to cultural evolutionary theory before describing our model, which focuses on how cultural transmission processes and selection events at different career phases shape not only who teaches in higher education, but also how they choose to teach. We leverage our model to make suggestions for expediting change in higher education. This includes reforming pedagogy in departments that produce PhD students with the greatest chance of obtaining tenure-track positions.

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The Lecture Machine: A Cultural Evolutionary Model of Pedagogy in Higher Education

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Brownell

2018

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“…Another factor related to research life at comprehensive institutions is the kind of teaching one may be asked to do, which can affect a research agenda. Deardorff et al (2001) note that faculty at liberal arts institutions are often asked to be generalists, because these schools frequently expect professors to teach across the subfields in political science and sometimes outside the field. This finding squares with our own work experiences at liberal arts universities.…”

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“…There has been considerable pedagogical commentary about the profession regarding political science careers at both community colleges (Brudney 2001; Brudney 2002; Douglas 2002) and liberal arts institutions (Mathews-Gardner et al 2008; Deardorff et al 2001; Hanley 2008), as well as research comparing training needs and hiring practices across different types of institutions (e.g., Rothgeb, Spadafore, and Burger 2007). In addition, Rothgeb and Burger (2009) have conducted a comparative analysis of tenure requirements at BA, MA, and Ph.D. institutions, and they conclude that tenure requirements at MA-granting institutions are comparable to BA-granting institutions in terms of teaching, but for service and research, MA-granting institutions typically fall between BA and Ph.D. programs.…”

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Political Science Careers at Comprehensive Universities: Building Balanced Careers at “Greedy” Institutions

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Mueller

Strand

2011

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A considerable amount of research exists about political science careers at community colleges and liberal arts institutions, as well as about training and hiring practices across different types of institutions. However, there is virtually no commentary available on political science careers at comprehensive institutions, where a significant proportion of those in the field will spend their professional careers. The primary goal of this article is to initiate a conversation about working at a comprehensive university, which has both similarities to and important differences with Ph.D.-granting universities and liberal arts institutions. In doing so, we seek to highlight and discuss unique subtleties and complexities in the areas of teaching, research, and service that may provide insight into careers at comprehensive institutions and assist those who may be seeking or have just gained academic positions at such institutions.

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“…Talbot's (2009) 4. Applicants should tailor their materials to the positions for which they are applying; sound advice on this subject has been written regarding applications for jobs at liberal arts colleges (Donaldson Deardorff et al 2001) and community colleges (Douglas 2002), as well as for American university employment in general (Nerad 2004;Nelson 1995). Pfannestiel (1998) has described the trend toward temporary, non-tenure track positions.…”

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The Job Market's First Steps: Using Research Tools to Simplify the Process

Moore

Reeves

2011

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Excitement about the political science job market builds around the time of the Labor Day Annual Meeting of the APSA, when schools start to post their openings for the next year. As we entered the job market, we found ourselves repeatedly collecting information about available positions as we prepared application materials. We monitored APSA's eJobs website, cut and pasted relevant job information into a single spreadsheet, and assembled letters using that information. Here, we introduce free and open-source tools to automate these data collection and letter generation procedures using R and LaTeX. Our system minimizes manual data entry by extracting and creating a spreadsheet from APSA's eJobs information. We walk applicants through the initial job search steps, including using eJobs, compiling position information, and producing attractive letters.A s we entered the job market, we found ourselves spending hours collecting information about job openings and preparing applications to send to hiring committees. First, we repeatedly transferred information about dozens of jobs from the web to a single spreadsheet. This process involved line-by-line cutting and pasting for every position to which we applied (most of which were drawn from APSA's eJobs). Second, we manually created customized letters that drew information from our spreadsheet. As users of LaTeX, a free and open-source platform for creating professionally typeset documents, we found no off-the-shelf mailmerge procedure in LaTeX that accepted a spreadsheet as an input. 1 LaTeX is increasingly used by social scientists and taught to graduate students in political science programs because of its flexibility, quality, and affordability (it's free!). We found ourselves wishing we could automate these processes to populate our jobs spreadsheet more quickly and then generate attractive mail-merged letters for potential employers.To save job-seekers time and effort, we here introduce muRL, 2 a set of tools for collecting job information and preparing cover letters and mailing labels. These tools can be applied to any mailmerge task (e.g., letters of recommendation), and we provide guidance on special methods to simplify job searches in the field of political science. There are several benefits to our approach. We are able to automate the data entry of job information from APSA's eJobs listings. Using R and LaTeX, we can create handsome documents and minimize the effort dedicated to word processing and formatting tasks, allowing applicants to focus on creating highquality content to send to hiring committees. Finally, by automating the creation of letters, we can help prevent small mistakes with potentially large consequences: no search committee member from University X wants to read a cover letter that touts an applicant as "a great match for the position at University Y"! The next section briefly sketches the job market process and the importance of the cover letter. We then detail the benefits of our approach and how it can be used in your own poli...

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Getting and Keeping a Job at a Private Liberal Arts College, but Your Graduate Advisor Didn't Tell You

Cited by 10 publications

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The Lecture Machine: A Cultural Evolutionary Model of Pedagogy in Higher Education

The Lecture Machine: A Cultural Evolutionary Model of Pedagogy in Higher Education

Political Science Careers at Comprehensive Universities: Building Balanced Careers at “Greedy” Institutions

The Job Market's First Steps: Using Research Tools to Simplify the Process

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