This is the lowest level of full-time tenure line professorship in a university. The normal faculty member remains at the assistant professor level for approximately five years, at which time the tenure-track faculty member must submit their promotion packet of information, in the hopes of attaining tenure and promotion to associate professor.
Published in Chapter:
Sisyphus Leans Into the Professoriate: Faculty Discuss Careers and the Academic Landscape
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 42
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5065-6.ch009
Abstract
Four faculty at different points in their professorial careers come together to share their own experiences, from doctoral studies through the current point in their professional career path within higher education. The faculty include a tenure-track Assistant Professor, a tenured Associate Professor submitting her initial bid for promotion to Professor, a tenured Associate Professor completing a successful bid for promotion to Professor, and a tenured Professor. These four faculty come together to share their diverse experiences, although patterns and themes are highlighted. The questions and prompts to which the authors responded fell into the specified topics of doctoral study reflections, tenure track faculty reflections, promotion and tenure reflections, professional landscape reflections, and looking back, looking forward.