u/utahisastate

Edit: moved this from the r/professor subreddit to not break their posting rules.

All, looking for some advice here. I am a current adjunct at a mid-sized D2 school. I have only taught for one semester (Spring) but I am picking up 4 classes in fall (2 MBA and 2 undergrad). They opened up a TT/Professor of Practice position that I applied for and I have the first phone screen on Monday.

I have never really interviewed before for a job in academia. For context, I retired from a 25 year career in marketing and this is the next (last) chapter in my career.

What sort of questions are typically asked in these interviews? Will they ask for a potential area of research? Do they typically ask for me to fake teach a class so they can watch? Any guidance for those who have gone down this path?

I am a new adjunct that has been asked to apply for a full time TT position. I am a retired business exec (MBA not PhD) who started teaching because I enjoyed it and wanted to give back.

I am good teaching all of the classes that they want to assign me, but I have ZERO desire to do any kind of research or publishing. I am also (after seeing the managerial dysfunction in the department) somewhat reluctant to be involved in operations.

Am I ridiculous for wanting to only teach? And for those of you who (business school only) do research, how much of a workload is this? Any advice on managing through this situation?

This is a period that I have always been interested in but don’t know much about. Outside of that Owen Wilson movie, my knowledge is low. Can someone give me a recommendation of a book about the break up and subsequent civil war in the former Yugoslavia?