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Getting Tenure

According to our workshop participants, getting tenure is a major concern for new faculty members in tenure-track jobs. Good news: experts (see resources below) agree that how to get tenure need not be a mystery. Find out what the expectations are for tenure at your institution, meet those expectations, and in a few years, you'll be tenured. The resources below show you how.

Behind one door is tenure -- behind the other is flipping burgers at McDonald

Charting Your Progress Toward Tenure

When Rachel O'Brien was writing her self-evaluation for her "pre-tenure review" at Allegheny College, she created a chart to help her to track her professional activities and identify her strengths as well as her weaknesses. This helped her to prioritize her short-term goals as she prepared for tenure review. Check out her chart and use it as a model for your own.

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