ABSTRACT The past three decades have witnessed a major restructuring in faculty appointments and careers. Tenure-track and tenured faculty are declining as a share of the professoriate while non-tenure track positions, part-time and full-time, are soaring. Yet many in academia have an incomplete or simplistic knowledge of the nature of this fastest-growing segment of the professoriate and continue to mentor and prepare graduate students solely for tenure-track positions with distributed responsibilities in research, teaching and service. For us to become better mentors, we must understand the profound changes that are underway in the academic job market. This paper discusses the factors that have led to the restructuring of faculty appointments and careers, describes the nature of the new faculty positions, and provides guidance on how we can become better mentors to our graduate students seeking academic appointments.

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教师职业转型时代的研究生导师指导

摘要 在过去的三年里，教师的任命和职业经历了重大的重组。终身教职和终身教职教师占教授职位的比例正在下降，而非终身教职职位，兼职和全职，正在飙升。然而，学术界的许多人对这一增长最快的教授群体的性质知之甚少或过于简单，并继续指导和培养研究生，专门从事研究、教学和服务方面的分散职责的终身职位。为了让我们成为更好的导师，我们必须了解学术就业市场正在发生的深刻变化。本文讨论了导致教师任命和职业重组的因素，描述了新教师职位的性质，