title: Managing an academic career.
abstract: Current predicaments that academic educators deal with, that is, the conflicts between teaching and research responsibilities, the competition within universities for promotion and tenure, and the importance of viewing the university as a complex social-political system are addressed. Recommendations for improvements in the development and education of new faculty members and suggestions for evaluative criteria for the documentation of a faculty member's performance are offered.
mesh_terms: D002322:Career Mobility; D005178:Faculty; D006801:Humans; D009788:Occupational Therapy / Q000193:education*; D012106:Research; D013663:Teaching; D014481:United States; D014495:Universities