Practical advice for every step of an academic career, from preparing lectures and networking to tenure, promotion and post-tenure review.
You have tenure, a busy workload, and enough unfinished tasks to fill the semester. Someone asks when you'll apply for full professor. You may feel interested, tired, unsure, or all three. The handbook frames advancement as a…
Read articleWhen someone asks why you're pursuing tenure, the obvious answer may be, 'Because that's the job I'm in.' It's a fair answer. But it doesn't always help when you're choosing between another commitment and work you care about. The…
Read articleYou hear 'tenure and promotion' so often that it starts to sound like one decision. Then you encounter a promotion process for teaching faculty, or a colleague changes institutions, and the distinction suddenly matters. The…
Read articleYou hear that your tenure file goes 'through several levels,' but that phrase doesn't tell you who needs what, when it happens, or where you fit into the process. Uncertainty makes an already substantial task feel even larger…
Read articleMid-tenure review can feel like someone has asked you to show the finished house while you're still building it. Projects are underway, courses are changing, and some of your most promising work hasn't reached publication yet…
Read articleYour first annual review instructions arrive, and suddenly the work you've been doing has to fit into boxes, sections, and attachments. Before you start writing, pause long enough to check what the review is actually asking. The…
Read articleYou're excited about a faculty role, but much of the advice you find assumes everyone is headed toward tenure. That can leave a lecturer, clinical faculty member, visiting professor, or professor of practice wondering which parts…
Read articleYou see 'tenure-track' in your appointment letter and feel a mixture of relief and pressure. There's a path ahead, but the label doesn't explain the next several years by itself. The details still need a careful read. The…
Read articleSomeone introduces you as an assistant professor, and a well-meaning relative asks who you're assisting. Later, a colleague mentions a clinical associate professor, a lecturer, and a visiting professor in the same conversation…
Read articleOrientation ends, you return to your office with a stack of information, and a simple question appears: who was the person who explained travel funding? You can picture the slide. The name is gone. The most useful thing you bring…
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