History as a Career
Academic Advice and Career Counseling Resources
- Understanding University Success (Center for Educational Policy Research)
- Locating Information on the Internet (Library of Congress)
- Academic Advising Resources
- How to Succeed as a Student (K. Bucknall)
- Resident Assistant.com: The Rx for RA's
- Counseling Center (Tennessee Technological University)
- Counseling Center Workshops, TTU
- Ask a Librarian: an online reference service from the Library of Congress
- GovEngine.com: the Premiere Federal, State, & Local Government Site on the Internet
- Career Onestop
- Career Overview: Career Information and Job Description Guide
- Collegiate Employment Research Institute (Michigan State University)
- Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2000-01 Edition (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
- Career Guide to Industries (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
- Statistical Abstract of the U.S. (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Facster: The Facts at Your Fingertips
- Occupational Employment Statistics (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
- Education Pays (Employment Policy Foundation)
- National Survey of Student Engagement: The College Student Report
- Quality, Affordability, and Access: Americans Speak on Higher Education, June 2003 (ETS)
- Closing the College Participation Gap (Education Commission of the States)
- College Is Possible (Coalition of America's Colleges and Universities
- College Affordability in Jeopardy: A Special Supplement to National Crosstalk
(National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education)
- The Big Payoff: Educational
Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings
July 2002, U.S. Census Bureau Special Report
- Careers.org: Career Resource Center
- Career Overview: Career Information and Job Description Guide
- History Career Page (St. Bonaventure University)
- The Liberal Arts and the Arts and Humanities Jobs (National Employment Bulletin)
- U 101 College Search: Links to Learning Directory of Colleges, Universities, and Online Education in North America
- The Secret History of the Credit Card (Frontline, PBS)
- Works on Personal Finance
Searching for Jobs at Tennessee Tech
Seasonal and Summer Jobs
Using the Internet for Job Hunting
Conducting a Job Search
Looking for Specific Jobs
Job Search Sites
Job Opportunities in Tennessee
Federal Job Opportunities (U.S. Government)
Jobs Outside the United States
K-12 Teaching Jobs Information
Preparing Professional Portfolios for K-12 Teaching Jobs
- "School: The Story of American Public Education" (PBS, 2001)
- National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (Teacher's College, Columbia University
- The Next Generation of Teachers
- National Teacher Recruitment Clearinghouse
- The Condition of Education
(National Center for Education Statistics)
- Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy (University of Washington)
- Teacher Quality:
A Report on Teacher Preparation and Qualification of Public School Teachers, January 28, 1999 (National Center for Education Statistics)
- To
Touch the Future: Transforming the Way Teachers Are Taught
(American Council on Education)
- MetLife Survey of the American Teacher
- All Talk, No Action: Putting an End to Out-of-Field Teaching, August 2002 (The Education Trust)
- Interpret With Caution: The First State Title II Reports on the Quality of
Teacher Preparation, June 2002 [Adobe Acrobat .pdf format] (The Education Trust)
- Society for the Study of Curriculum History
- NCATE 2000 Unit Standards (National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education [Adobe Acrobat .pdf format]
- Who Should Teach? Quality Counts 2000 (Education Week)
- The Condition of Education (National Center for Education Statistics)
- State Education Reforms (Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
- School District Demographics (National Center for Education Statistics)
- International Archive of Education Data (National Center for Education Statistics)
- National Center for Education Statistics (U.S. Department of Education)
- Electronic Catalog for National Center for Education Statistics (U.S. Department of Education)
- Digest of Education Statistics, 1999 (National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
- National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
- NAFSA: Association of International Educators
- StateStandards.com: State Educational Standards Coupled to Lesson Plans and Resources
- School District Demographics (National Center for Education Statistics)
- Education in Tennessee (Official State of Tennessee site)
- Tennessee Department of Education
- Office of Teacher Licensing (Tennessee Department of Education)
- Earning a Tennessee Teacher
License (Tennessee Department of Education)
- The PRAXIS Series: Assessments for Beginning Teachers (ETSnet)
- Teacher Recruitment Week at TTU (February)
- Tennessee Teacher Employment Resource (Tennessee Department of Education
- Web Pages for Tennessee Schools (TN Department of Education)
- [Tennessee, USA] International WWW Schools Registry (Web 66)
- Putnam County Education Association
- Agent K-12: Redefining the Education Job Search (edweek.org
- American School Directory: The Internet Guide to All 106,000 K-12 Schools
- Private School Review: Profiles of Private Elementary Day Schools and High Schools
- Public School Review: Public Elementary, Middle, and High Schools: Free Profiles of Public Schools in the USA (
- U.S. Department of Defense Education Activity Personnel Center
(teaching on military bases and overseas)
- K-12 Teaching Positions (Troops to Teachers)
- The Educational Vacancies Website [education jobs in the United Kingdom] (Alexander
Advertising International, United Kingdom)
- Developing a Professional Portfolio (U. of
Wisconsin, River Falls)
- Professional Employment Portfolio (Career Services, Ball State University)
- [Tennessee, USA] International WWW Schools Registry (Web 66)
- School District Demographics (National Center for Education Statistics)
- Education Week on the WEB
- State Education Reforms (Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
- The History of Education (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)
- MarcoPolo: Internet Content for the Classroom (WorldCom.com)
- American Textbook Council (focus on K-12 history texts)
- Lesson Plans for History
- Net Day Compass: Your Guide to the World of Ed[ucational] Technology
- Teach with Movies (D. Elliott and J.A. Frieden)
- Journal of Research on Technology in Education
- National Commission on the High School Senior Year
Seasonal and Summer Jobs
Applying to Law School
History Department(s) Meta Sites
Applying for Graduate Study in History
Seeking Jobs in the History Profession
- Career Network Bookshelf (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Why Study History?
- Peter N. Stearns, Why Study History?
- American Historians [oral history interviews] (Oral History Research Office, Columbia University)
- Why Become a Historian (American Historical Association-sponsored essays)
- Should You Go to Graduate School (Career Services and Placement, Michigan State University)
- Check AHA Perspectives Online for articles on Ph.D. Programs, Jobs, and Salaries
- Preparing Future Faculty (Association of American Colleges and Universities)
- Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities (1998)
(The Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University)
- Reinventing Undergraduate Education: Three Years After the Boyer Report
(The Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University)
- Re-Envisioning the Ph.D.
- Ph.D. Career Resources (Re-Envisioning the Ph.D.)
- Linguafranca: The Review of Academic Life (check under JobTracks)
- Who Got Hired Where: Hirings and Tenure (Linguafranca)
- Career Network Bookshelf (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Directories from the American Historical Association
- Grad-Link (H-Net)
- The Chronicle of Higher Education Career Network
- HighEdJobs.com
- Academic Careers Online
- Job Resources in Higher Education (Higher Education Resource Hub)
- Jobs in Research, Science, Academic and Related Professions (United Kingdom)
- American Association of Community Colleges
- Community College Jobs (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Times Higher Education Supplement: Jobs
- The State of E-Learning in the States (National Governors Association)
- A Vision of E-Learning for America’s Workplace:
Report of the Commission on Technology and Adult Learning (National Governors Association)
- Distance Learning Jobs (Career Network, Chronicle of Higher Education)
- "Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education," October 1997 (David F. Noble)
- David Noble's articles on Digital Diploma Mills
- U.S. Department of Defense Education Activity Personnel Center
(teaching on military bases and overseas)
- Career Center (American
Association of Community Colleges)
- Academe This Week: Job Openings in History (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- H-Net Job Guide
- AHA Annual Meeting
- Member Services (must be member of American Historical Association to use)
- Upcoming OAH Meetings
- OAH Jobs Online: Current Employment Listings (Organization of American Historians)
- Jobs in History (Inside Higher Ed)
- The Humanities at Work: The Doctorate Beyond the Academy
(Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation)
- National Association of Graduate and Professional Students
- NAGPS Internet Job Bank (National Association of Graduate and Professional Students)
- National Coalition of Independent Scholars
- NAFSA: Association of International Educators
- Jobs in Higher Education
(University of Texas)
- Teaching at an Independent School, C. Todd Stephenson, Ph.D.
- Academic Employment Network (Portland, Maine)
- Job Listings (Education Week on the WEB)
- Lesson Plans for History
- Beyond Academe
Alternative Careers for Humanities Ph.D.'s
College Teaching
Last updated on August 23, 2007
Department of History
Tennessee Technological University
Box 5064
Cookeville, TN 38505
(931) 372-3332
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