New professors often experience difficulty adjusting to the rigors of academic life. Each of the books below offer excellent career and professional development advice for faculty.
1) Mentor in a Manual: Climbing the Academic Ladder to Tenure
Everything a new professor needs to know to make the transition from junior faculty to tenured professor. Discusses politics, teaching strategies, maintaining a research program, publishing, and preparing your application for tenure.
2) Advice for New Faculty Members
Offers advice and a philosophy of life for new faculty that will help them to thrive in academia. The author advocates moderation in ways of working, based on research findings about qualities that distinguish faculty who thrive from those who struggle. I highly recommend this book because I've found the techniques very effective in my work as a professor.
3) Lifting a Ton of Feathers
Discusses the challenges that women face in academia -- and offers solutions. Essential reading for all female graduate students, postdocs and faculty, as well as others who aim to assist academic women defeat the odds.
4) Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia
This book is informative, genuine, and humorous. The advice, dispensed through question and answers, is invaluable and explains what academia is really like. The author contributes a regular column to the jobs section of the Chronicle of Higher Education -- she's a well-respected expert whose advice is reliable.
