Higher Education Careers Beyond the Professoriate

Authors

Karen Cardozo, Leap Here Consulting
Katherine Kearns, Indiana University Bloomington
Shannan Palma, HER Academy

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Description

Higher Education Careers Beyond the Professoriate is one of the first collections to explore PhD career versatility within higher education. The twenty-three contributors represent diverse disciplines, institution types, professional roles, and intersectional identities. Each thoughtful and personal essay explores firsthand what it means to remain in higher education, yet not in the traditional role of a professor. Topics include establishing new career paradigms, well-being and work-life balance, blended roles and identities, and professional work around advocacy and inclusion. Unifying the essays is the idea that career diversity is intertwined with other diversity discourse, yielding a broad-based but critical examination of careers in higher education administration.

Though the doctoral landscape continues to change, a self-determined, values-driven attitude remains essential. This book offers powerful insight into cultural and structural barriers that inhibit institutional transformation and obscure the real range of PhD futures. Frank about both challenges and opportunities, these essays reveal how letting go of “track” thinking opens a constellation of possibilities and many paths to meaningful work and a fulfilling life.

ISBN

9781612498980

Publication Date

Spring 3-15-2024

Publisher

Purdue University Press

City

West Lafayette

Keywords

PhD, doctoral, PhD career versatility, professional development, graduate career advising, transferable skills, interdisciplinarity, academic careers, alt-ac careers, higher education administration, student affairs, educational development, teaching centers, diversity, equity, and inclusion, belonging in higher education, diversity in STEM fields, moving from humanities to STEM, work-life balance, well-being and academic careers, neurodivergence and higher education careers, DEI, career fulfillment

Disciplines

Education | Educational Administration and Supervision | Higher Education | Higher Education Administration

Comments

Open access publication of this title is supported by Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies.

Recommended Citation

Cardozo, Karen; Kearns, Katherine; and Palma, Shannan, "Higher Education Careers Beyond the Professoriate" (2024). Navigating Careers in Higher Education Series. 4.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/navigatingcareershighered/4