學術生涯好書推薦：芝加哥學術生涯規(guī)劃

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　　The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career芝加哥學術生涯規(guī)劃：從研究生到終身教授

　　John A. Goldsmith, John Komlos, and Penny Schine Gold作者：（美）哥德史密斯，（美）孔洛斯，（美）戈爾德

　　前言Preface

　　The University of Chicago Press出版社：芝加哥大學出版社

　　This book is, in essence, a user’s guide to academic life, conceived for those considering taking up a career in the traditional academic disciplines—seniors in college, perhaps, or others thinking about going into graduate school—as well as those who have already started out along that path, which is to say, men and women working on a Ph.D. and those already with appointments as assistant professors at a college or a university. Some of our remarks may be of interest to others as well: senior professors who are interested in other perspectives on the academic scene, confused and bewildered parents of junior academics, professional advisors, spouses of graduate students and junior faculty, and laymen interested in learning about the mysteries of academia. Foreign students who are thinking about acquiring an American graduate school education will certainly profit from reading this book.

　　本書是一部學術人生的導航，為那些想在傳統(tǒng)學術領域里擁有一席之地的人所作一一比如大學四年級學生，或是考慮進入研究生院深造的人；當然也為幫助 那些在學術之路上已有開端的人們，例如正在攻讀的博士生和即將履新的大學助理教授。我們的某些觀點或許對其他人也有所幫助：對看待學術界的不同視角感興趣 的資深教授、不太了解學術生涯為何物的青年學者的父母、職業(yè)生涯規(guī)劃導師、研究生和青年教師的配偶，以及意欲探究學術圈奧秘的局外人。當然，對于想獲得美 國研究生學位的外國學生，本書一定也不會讓他們失望。

　　How do you expect this book to be used?該如何使用本書？

　　John Komlos: In order to make best use of our guide, you may want to read some parts less intensely than others. Yet perusing the whole should give you a pretty good indication of what academic life will be like a few years down the road, should you choose this path, and you can always return to the chapters devoted to that part of your career that lies just ahead in order to take more careful notes. You may also want to supplement our volume with others devoted to the next station in your career.約翰·孔洛斯: 為了讓這本書發(fā)揮最好的效用，閱讀的時候應該有所取舍。而瀏覽全書又能讓你概覽未來多年學術生涯的全貌，一旦你走上這條路，每到一個新的階段，就可以查閱相關章節(jié)，以獲得更多細致全面的信息。如有必要，你還可將此書與其它專門討論你將面臨的學術生涯某個階段的書籍一起使用。

　　John Goldsmith: This book is an attempt to redress the imbalance between reality and perception that now seems to prevail. We do our best, first of all, to inform the reader about how academia is set up and how it works—to answer the questions you always wanted to have answered, but were afraid to ask—and we also try to give some advice about how the academic world should be viewed. We’ll put our cards on the table: we like the academic world very much and have enjoyed our choices of career a great deal. We have also seen any number of friends and acquaintances suffer a great deal in this world, partly because there was an unfortunate mismatch between academia and their personal needs and gifts and partly because they carried around in their heads inaccurate assumptions about how the system functioned. These people were, without exception, bright enough to make it in the academic world, however you wish to interpret that; academics are, by and large, no more and no less intelligent than the successful people in medicine, in law, in business, or in engineering. These folk, as a rule, also had something to offer and did, indeed, have the potential to make a contribution, which for some reason could not be realized. To succeed in a profession, two things are necessary: one’s goals and abilities must match those required by the profession, and one must possess a realistic understanding of how the profession works. This book is an attempt to help future academics or junior academics come to grips with those matters. We hope to provide the reader with an unbuttoned view of the academic life. We’ll call the shots as we see them, and there’s a lot of personal opinion that is bound up in the remarks that we offer.

　　約翰·哥德史密斯: 學術界的現(xiàn)實和人們對它的認識之間存在著巨大的差異，且這種差異有愈來愈烈之勢，本書嘗試對此作出糾正。首先，我們盡量告訴讀者學術界的組織和運作規(guī)則 ——對此大家一直希望有現(xiàn)成答案，卻又羞于啟齒去問。此外，我們也想給大家一些應該如何看待學術界的建議。我們的態(tài)度是開誠布公的： 我們熱愛學術，對自己投身學術的選擇感到很欣慰。但我們也看到許多朋友和熟人在學術界飽受煎熬，原因之一在于他們的個人需求和能力不適合在其中發(fā)展，其二 在于對學術體系運行規(guī)范的錯誤預期。而毋庸置疑，從任何一個角度來說，這些人都非常聰明，其實完全可能在學術界獲得成功。總體而言，他們和醫(yī)療、法律、商 業(yè)以及工程技術界的成功人士才智相當。他們雖然因為某些原因沒有完全發(fā)揮自己的才學，可的確有做出貢獻的潛能。在一個行業(yè)里獲得成功，兩個條件必不可少： 其一，個人的目標和能力必須和行業(yè)的要求相配； 其二，必須切實了解這個行業(yè)的運行規(guī)則。本書嘗試著去幫助未來的學者和學術界得青年教師來應對這些問題。我們希望向讀者呈現(xiàn)學術界的原貌。本書盡量擇其要領，當然其觀點也帶有許多個人的經(jīng)驗和看法。

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