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Getting tenure / [edited by] Marcia Lynn Whicker, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, Ruth Ann Strickland.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Survival skills for scholars ; vol. 8.
- Survival skills for scholars ; vol. 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- College teachers--Tenure--United States.
- College teachers.
- College teachers--Tenure.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 147 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1993]
- Summary:
- Tenure. The one word guaranteed to send shivers of hope or dread down the back of any junior professor. Have I published enough? Will the department chair sponsor me through the process? What can I do to ensure that I get tenure? The process is a complicated one. This brief, practical guide demystifies the tenure process and gives concrete advice to graduate students and junior faculty on how to strategize to maximize your chances of hearing those golden words "you got it."
- Contents:
- 1. Thinking About Tenure 1
- 2. Managing Your Tenure Case 19
- Your Colleagues and Tenure Politics 21
- You and Tenure Politics 28
- 3. The Prologue to Tenure 36
- Academic Career Gateposts 37
- 4. Stepping Through the Tenure Process 47
- Who Makes the Tenure Decision? 47
- Getting Ready 52
- Preparing the Tenure File and Materials 57
- A Year of Waiting 64
- Being Denied Tenure 65
- 5. Meeting the Research Criterion 69
- Why Publish? 71
- The Scalpel, Shotgun, and Double-Helix Publishing Models 75
- Should You Collaborate in Research and With Whom? 78
- Developing Your Publication Record 80
- 6. Meeting the Teaching Criterion 87
- Having a Role Model: The Teaching Mentor 88
- Developing a Record to Meet the Teaching Criterion 90
- 7. Meeting the Service Criterion 107
- How Various Universities and Colleges View Service 108
- Different Types of Service 112
- Traps to Avoid and Special Circumstances 124
- Changing Interactions Between a University and Its Community 125
- 8. Paths to Tenure 127
- Paths Leading to Tenure 127
- Revoking Tenure 135
- 9. The Ten Commandments of Tenure Success 137.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-145).
- ISBN:
- 080395302X
- 0803953038
- OCLC:
- 28336383
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