Toppling the Ivory Tower: Preparing for Faculty Jobs of the Future: Seven Strategies for Success

This booklet offers graduate students and early career instructors seven practical strategies to successfully prepare to be faculty in the rapidly shifting landscape of higher education. The strategies address such “hot” topics as online education, entrepreneurship, and community engagement and provide step-by-step basic guidelines for getting an electronic portfolio up and running.

The author has over 17 years of experience in higher education, including as a tenure-track and/or tenured faculty member at four universities. Most recently she has served as a policy analyst and project manager for a nonprofit foundation and state agency, both dedicated to supporting access and success for college students.