An Academic CareerTerry Young & Paul Sava

Colorado School of Mines

Tenure-track

PhD

AssistantProfessor

Research Faculty

Tech Support

Promotion &Tenure

AssociateProfessor

Professor

PostdoctoralResearcher

Critical Skills

communication

teachingmentoring

research

collaborationmulti-tasking

timemgmt.

leadership

financialmgmt.

continuouslearning

Academia Industry

“Hats” Several One

Colleagues Students Professionals

Funding Raise your own “Provided”

Compensation Lower Higher

Freedom More Less

?Academia vs. Industry

Is a “Start-up” the Closest Analogy to the Academic Career?

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Network

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Live

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Communicate

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Raise funds