Open Access3: Surviving to Tenure
Author(s) -
Lang James M.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
to improve the academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-4822
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-4822.2007.tb00473.x
Subject(s) - documentation , career path , service (business) , order (exchange) , public relations , psychology , medical education , political science , sociology , business , management , marketing , computer science , economics , medicine , finance , programming language
For most new faculty, anxiousness about the tenure application begins from the first day on the job. Surviving the six intervening years on the tenure track requires a range of time‐ and career‐management skills that new faculty may only learn piecemeal along the way. New faculty need help in five specific areas in order to survive their path down the tenure track: 1) developing teaching strategies that will fit their personalities and reach as many students as possible, 2) managing their time to allow for research and publication, 3) determining what and how many service commitments to make, 4) existing peacefully and productively with their colleagues, and 5) preparing documentation for their tenure cases from the start of their careers.