Newly Tenured Associate Professors

1. Newly Tenured Associate Professors Arlene Carney Vice Provost for Faculty & Academic Affairs

2. Introduction • Associate Professor status • Life course of P & T

3. New Status • Who are you now? • What does it mean in your unit? • What are the challenges ahead? • What are the opportunities ahead?

4. Life Course of P & T • 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.

5. Current Guiding Documents • 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

6. Promotion from Associate to Full Professor • 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.

7. Section 9.2 of the Tenure Code • New subsection of 9.2 is in the handout.

8. 9.2 and Post-Tenure Review • One can remain an associate professor without post-tenure review. • Do need to achieve a higher level of performance to become a professor

9. Faculty Life Course Associate Professor Tenure Probationary Period

10. Faculty Life Course Full Professor Associate Professor Tenure Minimum Standards For Tenure Maintenance Probationary Period

11. Faculty Life Course Full Professor Associate Professor Tenure Post-tenure Review Probationary Period

12. Current Status of Associate Professors at Minnesota • 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

13. Criteria for Professor • 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.

14. Perceived Impediments • Service load • Teaching focus • Research burnout post tenure

15. Research Incentives • Semester leaves • Sabbaticals

16. Continued Needs • 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

17. Contact Information Arlene CarneyVice Provost for Faculty & Academic Affairscarne005@umn.edu612-626-9545

18. Contact Information Karen Zentner Bacig Associate to the Vice Provost kbacig@umn.edu

19. Provost’s Web Page http://www.academic.umn.edu/provost/ faculty/index.html

20. Connie WanbergCarlson School of Management • Promoted from Assistant to Associate in May, 2000 • Promoted from Associate to Full in May, 2005

21. Journey from Associate to Full • 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.

22. Rhythms of Academic Life (Sage) • 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

23. Burnout • 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)