Arc of Career Program

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Session Type: AALS Arc of Career Programs

Session Capacity: 240

Hotel: New York Hilton Midtown

Room: Sutton North

Floor: Second Floor

This session will take on some of the difficulties the AALS presents for many faculty members. The idea is to help faculty overcome the problems of the AALS and to use the organization to advance their careers. We will present strategies to address some of the difficulties, such as a culture of insiders, political correctness, scholarly faddishness, hierarchy, and bureaucracy. The goals are to help the people whom the AALS power structure seems to ignore, to allow them to feel less alone, to move them amicably past the problems, and thus to learn more about their fields, to have their ideas heard, to make contacts, and to advance their careers. Also, we will discuss how the AALS might improve itself for the benefit of all of its members.