When university and college search committees select new faculty members, they hope that the newcomer will understand and support the missions of the institution and be successful in integrating components of the professorial role--including research, teaching, learning, advising, institutional citizenship, and outreach and professional service…

This volume builds on a relatively new but already rich line of research about education for the professoriate. Several of the authors have previously contributed to the growing body of evidence that shows that the intense formal and informal focus on learning to conduct research in doctoral programs leaves future faculty insufficiently prepared…

Students learn their chosen profession's abstract body of professional knowledge and its associated skills during lengthy degree programs and apprenticeships. In the process, each student is crafting a sense of identity as a particular type of professional. The period of doctoral preparation is particularly important because although identity is…

Doctoral students trained today will soon join faculties in the nation's more than three thousand colleges and universities. The preparation these students receive while in their doctoral programs will influence the ways they prioritize research, teaching, and service. In this article, the authors report findings from an evaluation of a…

This chapter proposes a conceptual framework for understanding influences on faculty work and for conducting research about individual, organizational, and epistemological factors that may shape faculty members' engagement in public scholarship. (Contains 1 figure.)