Newest Resources in "Getting Tenure"
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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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Uncertain Principles: How to Survive the Tenure Process
- Advice from physicist Chad Orzel at ScienceBlogs
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Galactic Interactions : Advice for junior faculty at a research university
- "My advice here is specifically for faculty at a research University, most specifically Vanderbilt. It's primarily for physics and astronomy (indeed, primarily the latter), but will apply to a lesser extent to anybody in the physical sciences. I would hope that the two new hires in astronomy at Vanderbilt will at least read and think about this, even if they decide thereafter that I'm full of it."
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Incoherently Scattered Ponderings: "Tenure doesn't help you if you are dead"
- "A few funny quotes from a presentation on tenure, getting funded, etc"
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nanoscale views: Tenure - some advice
- Advice from Doug Natelson at Nanoscale Views
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The Tenure Chase Papers
- Dana Mackenzie's poignant tale of a tenure case gone awry.
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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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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.
