"The product of a lifetime of experience in American universities, The Scholar's Survival Manual offers advice for students, professors, and administrators on how to get work done, the path to becoming a professor, getting tenured, and making visible contributions to scholarship, as well as serving on promotion and tenure committees. Martin H. Krieger covers a broad cross section of the academic experience from a graduate student's first foray into the job market through retirement"-- Jacket and pbk. back cover.

Preface\Acknowledgments\A Way into This Guide\Glossary\Chapter 1. Graduate School (Essays #1-54)\Chapter 2. Writing (#55-95)\Chapter 3. Getting Done (#96-112)\Chapter 4. Getting the First Job (#113-150)\Chapter 5. Junior and Probationary Faculty (#151-174)\Chapter 6. Grants, Fellowships, and Other Pecuniary Resources (#175-183)\Chapter 7. Your Career (#184-219) \Chapter 8. Tenure and Promotion (#220-290)\Chapter 9. After Tenure—Associate and Full Professorship (#291-307)\Chapter 10. Scholarly and Academic Ethos (#308-391)\Chapter 11. Stronger Faculties and Stronger Institutions (#392-420)