Newly Tenured Associate Professors

Arlene CarneyVice Provost for Faculty & Academic

Affairs

Associate Professor status Life course of P & T

Who are you now? What does it mean in your unit? What are the challenges ahead? What are the opportunities ahead?

Few departmental 7.12 statements made statements about the expectation to achieve the rank of professor.

Faculty Tenure was silent on this topic prior to 2007.

Criteria for promotion to professor were often brief and non-explicit in existing 7.12 statements.

Regents Policy: Faculty Tenure http://www1.umn.edu/regents/policies/humanresources/FacultyTenure.pdf

Procedures for Reviewing Candidates for Tenure and/or Promotion: Tenure-Track and Tenured Facultyhttp://www.academic.umn.edu/provost/faculty/tenure/pdf/Procedures101207.pdf

Usually the shortest part of the 7.12 statement.

Most frequent criterion – a national or international reputation.

Since we have no system of reviews for associate professors, the path to promotion is not clear.

New subsection of 9.2 is in the handout.

One can remain an associate professor without post-tenure review.

Do need to achieve a higher level of performance to become a professor

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Fall of 2005 – 38% of associate professors on the Twin Cities campus had been at that rank for 8 years or more.

Fall of 2005 – looked at full professors who spent their careers at UMTC◦ Average time as an associate professor was 7.9

years

National and/or international reputation. Varies by campus and by unit. Need for a long-term plan and short-term

objectives to build the reputation is consistent across campuses and units.

Service load Teaching focus Research burnout post tenure

Semester leaves Sabbaticals

Mentoring ◦ Peer mentoring◦ Senior faculty member

Self-imposed goal for promotion Decision about balance of one’s effort Ways and means to continue and expand on

one’s scholarly interests

Arlene CarneyVice Provost for Faculty & Academic [email protected]

Karen Zentner BacigAssociate to the Vice [email protected]

http://www.academic.umn.edu/provost/faculty/index.html

Promoted from Assistant to Associate in May, 2000

Promoted from Associate to Full in May, 2005

Academia is full of opportunity: Make choices wisely◦ Help your teaching?◦ Help your research?◦ Something you want to do personally?◦ Groom yourself for administrative role?◦ Service becomes more important but pace yourself.

Ask for portfolio from successful (recent) person who went through process in your department.

Ask for feedback Circulate in press articles to email list.

Assistant (Goal to be excellent, to survive) Associate (Goal to be internationally known,

to have a real impact) Full

◦ Opportunity to ask and pursue big questions, focus on impact

◦ Mentoring◦ Running the university◦ Taking teaching to another level

Real phenomenon Do new things Challenge yourself Collaborate with new people Attend a new conference Talk to others about it

Book: Renewing Research Practice (Stanford Business Books)