Dealing With The Tenure/Promotion Process
If you have accepted a tenure-track position at a university, you need
to begin planning your strategy for tenure almost as soon as you move into
you new lab.
Workshops
Rising and
Surviving: Elucidating Tenure and Promotion in Multiple Career Paths
2009 Careers Symposium
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Professorship Workshop
Sponsored by George Washington University and Gallaudet University
Geared for women and minorities interested in tenure-track positions in
science, engineering or mathematics
Web Sites
Here are some web sites with information on the tenure and promotion
process that you may find useful.*
Early Years and Planning for Tenure Review
Barbara T. Alexander, APS Mentoring Forum
April 2008
The Academic Scientists' Toolkit
James Austin, ScienceCareers.org
April 2004
Collegiality
and the Weasel Clause
Career Network, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Getting
Beyond the Academic Gatekeepers: The Tenure Process
Lisa Whitten, Ph.D., SUNY/College at Old Westbury
How to
Ask Your Chair for a Raise
Victor L. Schuster and Sandra K. Masur, American Society for Cell
Biology
How to Get Tenure and Develop Your Own Research Group Identity
Bruce LoganBruce Logan (Penn
State Univ.), John Novak (VA Polytechnic Inst.), and Nicholas Clesceri
(NSF Environmental Engineering Program)
Interdisciplinarity
and Tenure
Science Next Wave
Life without Tenure, Part 1
Life with Tenure, Part II: The Fading Promise of Academic Medicine?
American Thoracic Society
Professional
Issues
ScienceCareers.org, AAAS
Planning
for Promotion and Timetable for the Year of Consideration for Promotion
Ruth-Marie E. Fincher, MD, Medical College of Georgia
Tenure (series of articles)
The Scientist
Sept. 2007
Tenure
(Chapter 7)
In: Career Advice for Life Scientists
American Society
for Cell Biology
(pdf file: Adobe
Acrobat needed)
Tenure Route Longer for Women in Science
Jessica T. Lee, Boston Globe (7/6/2004)
Books
The Black Academic's Guide to Winning Tenure – Without Losing your Soul
Kerry Ann Rockquemore and Tracey Laszloffy, 2008, Boulder, CO: Lynne
Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 978-1-58826-588-3
The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for
Scholars from Graduate School Through Tenure
John A. Goldsmith,
John Komlos,
and Penny Schine Gold, 2001, The University
of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0-226-30151-6
Tomorrow's Professor : Preparing for Careers in Science and
Engineering
Richard M. Reis, 1997, IEEE Press
ISBN: 0-7803-1136-1
*APS does not endorse or
assume responsibility for the information posted on these web sites.
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