University faculty are contracted to fulfill three distinct areas of the job, which are: teaching, research and scholarship, and service. Each university, and each college or school within a university, have different expectations associated with teaching, research and service responsibilities and associated expectations. These expectations should be clearly articulated in the university’s faculty handbook and the college’s or school’s policies and procedures.
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.