--- product_id: 6492509 title: "Advice for New Faculty Members" price: "β‚ͺ312" currency: ILS in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.co.il/products/6492509-advice-for-new-faculty-members store_origin: IL region: Israel --- # Moderate effort for sustainable success Social engagement enhances academic culture Thoughtful composition boosts creativity Advice for New Faculty Members **Price:** β‚ͺ312 **Availability:** βœ… In Stock ## Summary > πŸ“š Unlock your academic edge with smart moderation! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Advice for New Faculty Members - **How much does it cost?** β‚ͺ312 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.il](https://www.desertcart.co.il/products/6492509-advice-for-new-faculty-members) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Data-Driven Success:** Proven strategies tested on hundreds of new faculty - β€’ **Engage Authentically:** Navigate academic culture with social savvy and compassion - β€’ **Write Daily, Win Big:** Boost productivity with focused, brief writing sessions - β€’ **Stress Less, Teach More:** Save time and anxiety with practical lecture prep tips - β€’ **Balanced Workload, Maximum Impact:** Master moderation to thrive without burnout ## Overview Advice for New Faculty Members is a research-backed guide that empowers novice academics to excel through balanced teaching efforts, thoughtful writing habits, and strategic social engagement. With proven, practical rules tested on hundreds of faculty, it helps new professors boost student approval, increase productivity, and navigate academic cultureβ€”all while maintaining well-being and avoiding burnout. ## Description Advice for New Faculty Members: Nihil Nimus is a unique and essential guide to the start of a successful academic career. As its title suggests (nothing in excess), it advocates moderation in ways of working, based on the single-most reliable difference between new faculty who thrive and those who struggle. By following its practical, easy-to-use rules, novice faculty can learn to teach with the highest levels of student approval, involvement, and comprehension, with only modest preparation times and a greater reliance on spontaneity and student participation. Similarly, new faculty can use its rule-based practices to write with ease, increasing productivity, creativity, and publishability through brief, daily sessions of focused and relaxed work. And they can socialize more successfully by learning about often-misunderstood aspects of academic culture, including mentoring. Each rule in Advice for New Faculty Members has been tested on hundreds of new faculty and proven effective over the long run -- even in attaining permanent appointment. It is the first guidebook to move beyond anecdotes and surmises for its directives, based on the author's extensive experience and solid research in the areas of staff and faculty development. Review: Incredible - This book was eye opening for me. This book has that intangible magic, where it is so much greater than the sum of its parts. After finishing this book, it was filled with my bookmarks of places to revisit. I still often am thinking about and re-digesting the ideas in this book. At its face, this book is trumpeting a 'write-every-day' strategy for productivity. But by my read, this book is actually about meditation. The prose is even meditative in nature. Boice wants us to see how we can use meditative ideas to improve our writing productivity and quality. However, I can imagine that the readers who are not into his ideas will complain about how repetitive it is. But, part of meditation is repetition, and thus this structure only adds to the books mystique. Anyone who is in a creative field, not just academics, would benefit from reading this book. For me, following Boice's advice to the letter of the law will never work for me, but I have implemented many of his strategies into my writing process, and I am reaping the benefits. So incredibly happy I came across this book. Review: A great book for frantic new faculty! - When will someone reprint this book? Every academic I know who has read it has found it very helpful. Too bad used copies are like $50 at this point. The advice really covers every aspect of an assistant professor's professional life. As such, it will have something for everyone. My writing habits were already strong, but the tips on writing lectures made my presentations more focused and comprehensible to my students... and saved me a ton of time and anxiety. My partner had teaching down but used Boice's advice to develop a writing habit and now manages to get some research done even on teaching days (which he had never even attempted before). My friend C sought out a mentor on the strength of Boice's findings, something that wouldn't otherwise have occurred to him, and which has given him a much deeper understanding of the personalities and politics of our Department than I have. And my friend F had to read it twice but she has finally managed to start declining some of those extra administrative and teaching tasks that she always thought she had to say yes to! The real strength of this book is of course that it's data-driven. A lot of the advice (such as the lecture prep advice that so helped me) is not intuitive. I'm not sure you'd find it anywhere else. And Boice really understands all the psychic problems that can hold new faculty back--from panic to defensiveness to depression to simple cluelessness. ## Features - Practice Moderate Teaching Efforts - Compose Thoughtfully - Engage Socially, Show Compassion ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #119,209 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #48 in Audiology & Speech Pathology (Books) #137 in Education Administration (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 54 Reviews | ## Images ![Advice for New Faculty Members - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71xbBS-Z3wL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Incredible *by J***S on November 16, 2021* This book was eye opening for me. This book has that intangible magic, where it is so much greater than the sum of its parts. After finishing this book, it was filled with my bookmarks of places to revisit. I still often am thinking about and re-digesting the ideas in this book. At its face, this book is trumpeting a 'write-every-day' strategy for productivity. But by my read, this book is actually about meditation. The prose is even meditative in nature. Boice wants us to see how we can use meditative ideas to improve our writing productivity and quality. However, I can imagine that the readers who are not into his ideas will complain about how repetitive it is. But, part of meditation is repetition, and thus this structure only adds to the books mystique. Anyone who is in a creative field, not just academics, would benefit from reading this book. For me, following Boice's advice to the letter of the law will never work for me, but I have implemented many of his strategies into my writing process, and I am reaping the benefits. So incredibly happy I came across this book. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A great book for frantic new faculty! *by E***S on March 20, 2015* When will someone reprint this book? Every academic I know who has read it has found it very helpful. Too bad used copies are like $50 at this point. The advice really covers every aspect of an assistant professor's professional life. As such, it will have something for everyone. My writing habits were already strong, but the tips on writing lectures made my presentations more focused and comprehensible to my students... and saved me a ton of time and anxiety. My partner had teaching down but used Boice's advice to develop a writing habit and now manages to get some research done even on teaching days (which he had never even attempted before). My friend C sought out a mentor on the strength of Boice's findings, something that wouldn't otherwise have occurred to him, and which has given him a much deeper understanding of the personalities and politics of our Department than I have. And my friend F had to read it twice but she has finally managed to start declining some of those extra administrative and teaching tasks that she always thought she had to say yes to! The real strength of this book is of course that it's data-driven. A lot of the advice (such as the lecture prep advice that so helped me) is not intuitive. I'm not sure you'd find it anywhere else. And Boice really understands all the psychic problems that can hold new faculty back--from panic to defensiveness to depression to simple cluelessness. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ great advice, but maybe too much to follow all at once? *by D***D on November 15, 2014* Lots of very useful advice in here for dealing with the more psychological aspects of being a new professor. Trying to follow all of Boice's maxims when you are just starting out is probably impossible, like drinking out of a firehose. If you choose nothing else, his advice on dealing with writing is excellent. In general, it's missing some things that would be relevant to new professors in science/engineering who run labs of graduate students--take a look at At the Helm (Kathy Barker, Cold Spring Harbor Press, 2012). --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - πŸ›’ **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** β€” Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** β€” Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - πŸ’° **No Hidden Fees** β€” All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - πŸ”„ **15-Day Free Returns** β€” Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - πŸ”’ **Secure Payments** β€” Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** β€” Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.il/products/6492509-advice-for-new-faculty-members](https://www.desertcart.co.il/products/6492509-advice-for-new-faculty-members) --- *Product available on Desertcart Israel* *Store origin: IL* *Last updated: 2026-08-24*