The academic workplace, with its requirements for achieving tenure within the first 6 years of employment, is designed in ways that discriminate against young faculty with family care responsibilities, most notably mothers. Mason and Goulden ("Academe," http://www.aaup.org/publications/Academe/2002/02nd/02ndmas.htm, 2002, "Academe,"…

We identify the major tasks facing pre-tenure faculty members and outline advice, based on a review of the literature and our experiences, for succeeding in academia. The challenges encountered by new faculty include learning the culture of the new academic institution, understanding the processes and policies for academic performance review,…

This commentary offers advice for developing scholars culled from this volume's contributors, research on talent development in educational psychology and other domains, and my own experiences as an educational psychologist and journal editor. The advice includes: a) follow your bliss, b) spend and create time, c) build collaborative…