You’ve Got the Job – Now What?

Advice: Your First Month as an Assistant Professor

An article from Chronicle of Higher Education in 1999 providing Ms. Mentor's advice about what to do and what not to do as you begin your first semester as an academician. 

Avail. at URL:  http://chronicle.com/jobs/99/08/99082701c.htm

Advice on Starting Your Career in the Academy

An editorial from Analytical Bioanalytical Chemistry in 2006 providing guidance for analytical chemistry professors (the advice is more broadly applicable) on what to do and what not to do if you ultimately want tenure and a successful academic career

P. A. Mabrouk.  (2006)  Anal. Bioanal. Chem.  384 (5), 1029-1033.  “Advice to a New Assistant Professor.”  Avail. at URL: