Graduate School -- Writing -- Getting Done -- Getting the first job -- Junior & probationary faculty -- Grants, fellowships, & other pecuniary resources -- Your career -- Tenure & promotion -- After tenure -- Scholarly & academic ethos -- Stronger faculties & stronger institutions.

"The product of a lifetime of experience in American universities, The Scholar's Survival Manual offers advice for students, professors, and administrators on how to get work done, the path to becoming a professor, getting tenured, and making visible contributions to scholarship, as well as serving on promotion and tenure committees. Martin H. Krieger covers a broad cross section of the academic experience from a graduate student's first foray into the job market through retirement"--