Navigating Academic Tenure: Strategies and Advice for Success

1. Beyond Survival in the Academy Presented by Sean Humpherys

2. Overview • Companion book to “Survival in the Academy” with author commentary • Suggests or addresses starting at a non-Research I. school

3. Tenure • Tenure promotes academic freedom and as financially reward • Tenure criticism is “hindrance to economic utility” • Trend and pressure to replace tenure with other reward mechanisms

4. Tenure Advice • Start early • Set goals and develop plan in graduate school • Get a mentor • Tenure is part political

5. Tenure Portfolio • Sections for • Research • Teaching and • Service

6. Tenure Portfolio • Teaching Portfolio • Student evaluation • Curricular innovations • Successful class activities • Lectures & Syllabus • Assessment instruments • Student learning outcomes • Videotapes of teaching

7. Tenure Portfolio • Research Portfolio • Publications • Unpublished manuscripts • Sponsored Research projects • Conference proceedings • Pedagogical applications of research • Research in progress • Scholarly activities

8. Tenure Portfolio • Service Portfolio • Service to department • Service to students • Service to college • Service to community

9. Survive Transition • First year is the most difficult • Get a mentor • Plan for hidden costs • Moving, professional attire, student loans, parking, socializing, automobile, unions • Use a university credit union

10. Teaching • Learn to teach, “make the time” • “We are expected to pick up teaching by osmosis.” (Millman 1994) • Current trend in teaching is “Active Learning” • High-interest lessons based on real-world situations • Author recommends Davis’ (1993) book “Tools for Teaching”

11. Teaching • Service Learning (student projects) • www.active-learning-site.com (summary link and internet link are best resources) • Visit your institution teaching resource center. (http://www.utc.arizona.edu/) • Two great classes • Learner Centered Teaching Grad697a • Technology in the class room

12. Research • Publish or Perish • Develop your research goals (even in Ph.D. program) • Set aside time each week (I say each day) to progress your research • Very hard first year to research • Self-promotion needed, converse with colleagues about your research

13. Research Goals in Grad School • Personal example: • Read all the abstracts and be familiar with the research from MIS, ISR, JMIS, MS, CACM, IEEET, JAIS, for the past 5 years • Five published papers before graduation • Two published papers from my dissertation work • One co-authorship in a Tier 1 journal • Two conference papers or non-tier 1 journals • A dataset for future work and future publications • Be a reviewer four times (one being from a tier 1 journal)

14. Service • Know your departmental guidelines • Time consuming, balance service with research and teaching • Limit or postpone service in your first year • Service to department, institution, & community.

15. Networking • Meet people, develop long-term friendships • “How can I serve you?” attitude • Listen 80% Talk 20% • Don’t gossip or criticize. It’s a small world.

16. Q & A