Getting Tenure
Resources
A Higher Bar for Earning Tenure
Junior faculty members find that they must publish more and publish quickly. Chronicle of Higher Education, January 5, 2001.
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The Tenure Chase Papers
Dana Mackenzie's poignant tale of a tenure case gone awry.
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nanoscale views: Tenure - some advice
Advice from Doug Natelson at Nanoscale Views
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Inside Higher Ed :: Tenure and the Unspoken Rules
"Now that I have successfully achieved tenure at an R1, I feel the need to speak about what I have
learned in the process. Some of this drive to write is because I want to share important
lessons, but I also am compelled by the frustration and fear my junior colleagues share in
facing the lack of clarity in expectations for tenure."
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"How Are You Doing On the Climb to Tenure?"
Junior professors can take a free assessment to see where they stand in their climb to tenure. Responders to the assessment will receive a score, advice on how to proceed, and can use the assessment as a checklist in the future. The site has articles about getting tenure, teaching, mentoring, and job hunting.
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The Questions of Tenure
by Richard P. Chait. "Tenure is the abortion issue of the academy, igniting arguments and inflaming near-religious passions. To some, tenure is essential to academic freedom and a magnet to recruit and retain top-flight faculty. To others, it is an impediment to professorial accountability and a constraint on institutional flexibility and finances. But beyond anecdote and opinion, what do we really know about how tenure works?" $35.00 from Amazon
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