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  title info:
    title: "Connecting the Dots" to the Professoriate
    sub title: Midlife Women's Career Transitions and Strategies
  name:
    name part: Cherrstrom, Catherine Ann
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Alfred, Mary V.
    name part: 1951-
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Changing faculty characteristics in higher education include increasing numbers of new faculty with prior careers and women faculty. However, traditional adult development and career development theories may not account for the intersection of these two dimensions in examining faculty careers. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to investigate the career transitions and strategies of women midlife career changers to the professoriate. An adult transition model in conjunction with a contemporary career development model formed the conceptual framework and guided the study. Participants comprised eight tenured or tenure-track women faculty, in adult education or related fields at four-year institutions, who self-identified as career changers to the professoriate while age 35 to 60 years. To prepare for data collection, I used phenomenology's Epoché process to investigate and bracket the essence of my experience as a woman midlife career changer aspiring to the professoriate. Data collection comprised two semi-structured interviews with each participant using a protocol of open-ended questions. Data analysis consisted of phenomenological reduction, imaginative variation, and synthesis. Using terms like "connecting the dots," participants described their midlife career transitions to the professoriate as the culmination of prior life, education, and work experiences. They generally identified a career transition process influenced by midlife age with differing beginnings and endings and the following shared steps: prior experience, a doctoral program, an interim higher education position for some, and ultimately, tenure-track professor. Furthermore, participants described career transition challenges, supports, and strategies to manage the process. Specifically, participants experienced process-related challenges such as finding a first tenure-track position, required relocation, and tenure and promotion. In addition, they experienced relationship…
  note: by Catherine Ann Cherrstrom.
  note: "Major Subject: Educational Human Resource Development"
  note: Includes vita.
  note: Doctor of Philosophy Texas A & M University 2015 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/155070
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation)
  subject:
    topic: Major Educational Human Resource Development
  subject:
    topic: career transition
  subject:
    topic: career change
  subject:
    topic: midlife
  subject:
    topic: expert to novice
  subject:
    topic: faculty
  subject:
    topic: professoriate
  subject:
    topic: academy
  subject:
    topic: higher education
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/155070
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 160303
    record change date: 20170928112052.0
    record identifier: in00003609510
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng