CHAPTER ONE: BASIC CONCEPTS
1) Gray’s Theorem of N + 2; 2) 100 Powerful People; 3) What You Can do to Become Known; 4) Drew’s Dictum on Publishing Papers; 5) Mentors; 6) Get Known for Something

CHAPTER TWO: THE PHD
7) Finish the PhD as Early as Possible; 8) Be Humble about your PhD; 9) PhD Indicates Survivorship; 10) Research Sample of 1; 11) License to Reproduce; 12) A PhD in Hand; 13) Key Danger Point; 14) PhD and Part Time Study; 15) Avoid Watson’s syndrome; 16) Celebrate your PhD!

CHAPTER THREE: JOB HUNTING
17) Job hunting is a research project; 18) Go where you and your family want to live; 19) Build a reference pool; 20) References are important; 21) Interview your potential boss; 22) If You produced more research than they did; 23) Find the best possible school; 24) Get the PhD before you start the tenure track; 25) Non-university research organizations; 26) Don’t take the 1st job at your PhD school; 27) The Assistant Dean strategy; 28) Effect of Supply and demand; 29) Determine the culture; 30) Need for Salary and tenure information; 31) Getting tenure data; 32) The Post Doc option; 33) Change your career every seven years; 34) Ask about retirement system; 35) Coping with parking; 36) Real pay; 37) Get offer in writing; 38) Potential of other employment

CHAPTER FOUR: TEACHING AND SERVICE
39) Publication is the only portable wealth; 40) Teaching is becoming more valuable for tenure; 41) Teaching is a learned art; 42) Go to Toastmasters if needed; 43) Meeting classes; 44) Distance learning; 45) Student excuses; 46) Student cheating; 47) Teaching can be dangerous; 48) Don’t serve on committees where you are the expert; 49) The ‘‘mode’’ of the number of publications

CHAPTER FIVE: RESEARCH
50) Make sure you have time for research; 51) Tradeoff between teaching and research; 52) Quantitative and qualitative methods; 53) Learn grantsmanship; 54) Writing the grant proposal; 55) If your grant proposal is declined; 56) Advisory panel in the proposal; 57) Advisory panel after proposal accepted; 58) Get the grant in writing

CHAPTER SIX: TENURE
59) Tenure is the prize; 60) Why tenure is a hurdle; 61) The tenure clock is 4.5 years; 62) Tenure committees count refereed publications; 63) If you are tenured, keep it when you change jobs; 64) Tenure can be negotiated on the way in; 65) Tenure is tougher in cross-disciplinary fields; 66) Tenure may not be here forever; 67) Rolling tenure review; 68) Tenured slots may decrease with time

CHAPTER SEVEN: ACADEMIC RANK
69) Tenured full professor is freedom; 70) As a full professor you must be known for something; 71) Don’t become a Permanent Associate Professor; 72) Pay raises for promotion

CHAPTER EIGHT: SALARY
73) Academics are risk averse; 74) Nine-month contracts; 75) Salary variation by field; 76) Administrators make more; 77) Summer pay

CHAPTER NINE: LIFE AS AN ACADEMIC
78) Bad deans; 79) Don’t choose sides in department politics; 80) Don’t take a joint appointment; 81) Secretaries are a scarce resource; 82) Value your TA’s and graders; 83) Grading; 84) Research assistants; 85) Physical Plant; 86) Join the faculty club; 87) Office hours; 88) Sabbaticals; 89) Collegiality; 90) Professors are public persons; 91) Freedom of speech; 92) Attend campus lectures; 93) Letters of reference for students; 94) Writing external letters of evaluation; 95) The computer center; 96) E- mail; 97) The down side of e-mail; 98) Don’t get on too many e-mail lists; 99) E-mail from your students; 100) Keep up with computer developments; 101) Meetings and digital publication; 102) Interlibrary loan; 103) Digital libraries; 104) Development; 105) Alumni office; 106) Public relations; 107) Faculty senate; 108) A job for full professors; 109) The limited powers of department chairs; 110) The role conflict in the job; 111) Leadership; 112) Dealing with student problems; 113) The redeeming social values of the job; 114) Don’t stay in the job too long; 115) Student grievances; 116) Sexual harassment; 117) Serving on the grievance committee; 118) Being a grievant; 119) Free time; 120) Political leanings

CHAPTER TEN: DIVERSITY
121) The continuing goal; 122) Variation among institutions; 123) Assessing colleagues and deans; 124) Indicators of true diverse hiring; 125) Climate for women; 126) The literature

CHAPTER ELEVEN: ON WRITING
127) Learn how to write clearly; 128) Learn the fine points of English; 129) Spell check and grammar check; 130) Plagiarism is a no-no; 131) Limits on self-plagiarism; 132) Drew’s Rule of Conference Redundancy; 133) Pool of research references; 134) Reuse of dissertation references

CHAPTER TWELVE: ON PUBLISHING
135) Submit your papers to the best journals in the field; 136) Write for refereed journals; 137) Avoid writing elementary textbooks; 138) Difference between 1st and nth paper; 139) Writing the nth paper; 140) Make contribution clear; 141) Revise papers quickly; 142) Turn your reviews of others around quickly; 143) Publish early and often; 144) Your dissertation is a publishing asset; 145) Your literature search is a treasure trove; 146) Include single author papers in your portfolio; 147) Coauthoring with superstars; 148) The delays in publication; 149) Don’t become editor too early; 150) Advantages of being reviewer; 151) Usefulness of publisher reps.; 152) Meet the publisher’s editors; 153) Selecting a publisher

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: PERSONAL ITEMS
154) Learn new things over time; 155) Being expert witness; 156) Don’t be a penny ante thief; 157) Learn time management; 158 Time to completion

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: FINAL THOUGHTS
159) Your reputation; 160) Treating students as guests

APPENDIX A: THE DISSERTATION: 161) Finding a dissertation topic; 162) Problem solving model; 163) The dissertation proposal; 164) The range of your literature review; 165) Selecting the dissertation advisory committee; 166) The chain of references; 167) Coupling discussion of results with the literature review; 168) The risk of ‘‘not significant’’ results

APPENDIX B: OUTSIDE INCOME: 169) Consulting as a hired hand; 170) Don’t live on your consulting income; 171) Paying taxes on consulting income; 172) Grants and contracts; 173) The summer teaching option; 174) Regular income vs. Schedule C income; 175) Pro Bono work; 176) Consulting pay rate; 177) Teaching in 2 schools

APPENDIX C: WRITING HINTS: 178) Explain only what reader needs to know; 179) Avoid passive voice; 180 Avoid should and must; 181) Avoid too much bold face and italics; 182) Effective and efficient; 183) Avoid generalizing from a single case; 184) Use of lists; 185) Figures and Tables; 186) ‘‘Styles’’ in word processors; 187) Spell checker; 188) References; 189) Eliminate Poor Writing Habits; 190) Bad words

APPENDIX D: YOUR HEALTH
191 Avoid stress; 192) Start a health and fitness program; 193) Exercise; 194) Addictions; 195) Weight control; 1960 Diet; 197) Meditation; 198) Appearance; 199) Insurance.