Shaping Your Career: A Guide for Early Career Faculty - Paperback

by Don Haviland (Author), Anna M. Ortiz (Author), Laura Henriques (Author)

This book recognizes, as its point of departure, that faculty are rarely prepared for the range of roles they need to play or the varied institutions in which they may work, let alone understand how to navigate institutional contex, align individual goals with institutional expectations.

Author Biography

Don Haviland is professor and department chair in the educational leadership department at California State University, Long Beach. Dr. Haviland has over 25 years of experience in academic and student affairs, as well as educational research, and has extensive experience studying the faculty socialization and development process. As senior research associate at WestEd, he was part of a small team that evaluated the Preparing Future Faculty program, designed to prepare graduate students for the full range of faculty careers, for the National Science Foundation and the Annenberg Foundation. In his time at CSULB, he has studied a faculty development program around assessment and the expectations and experiences of full-time contingent faculty related to collegiality. His longitudinal study of 9 pre-tenure faculty through the first 6 years of their careers provides the empirical foundation for the proposed book. Anna M. Ortiz is department chair and professor of Educational Leadership at California State University, Long Beach. She has 27 years of experience in academic and student affairs. She has served as the new faculty mentorship coordinator for 7 years in the College of Education at CSULB and has coordinated and/or presented at several AERA Division J new faculty institutes and NASPA doctoral seminars, and is the inaugural Director of the NASPA Faculty Division. She has published extensively on the experiences of diverse students in higher education and on career issues for both student affairs administrators and faculty. Laura Henriques is a professor and former chair of Science Education in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at California State University, Long Beach. She has been at CSULB for 20 years and taught physics prior to that. She has mentored faculty and new department chairs, presented and published with ASTE and NARST, received multiple federal and privately funded grants, and served as the President of the California Scie