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The Tenure Chase Papers
in Getting Tenure
Dana Mackenzie's poignant tale of a tenure case gone awry.
Uncertain Principles: How to Survive the Tenure Process
in Getting Tenure
Advice from physicist Chad Orzel at ScienceBlogs
"How Are You Doing On the Climb to Tenure?"
in Getting 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.
Galactic Interactions : Advice for junior faculty at a research university
in Getting Tenure
"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."
A Higher Bar for Earning Tenure
in Getting Tenure
Junior faculty members find that they must publish more and publish quickly. Chronicle of Higher Education , January 5, 2001.
Inside Higher Ed :: Tenure and the Unspoken Rules
in Getting Tenure
"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."
The Questions of Tenure
in Getting 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
nanoscale views: Tenure - some advice
in Getting Tenure
Advice from Doug Natelson at Nanoscale Views
Incoherently Scattered Ponderings: "Tenure doesn't help you if you are dead"
in Getting Tenure
"A few funny quotes from a presentation on tenure, getting funded, etc"