Full Description
Tenure is a pivotal decision for the academy. If it is earned, it provides security and permanence, creating further academic freedom to pursue research and interests important to the institution and to society. If it is not earned, then the peer review process provides clarification for why it has not been earned. This book brings together lived experiences of academics around the time of the tenure decision. While the book is stand-alone, it has the same collection of authors who wrote about their tenure-track experiences in The Academic Gateway, making the pair of books a remarkable longitudinal collection.
The authors explore the complex relationship between academics, the academy as an ideal, and universities as an enactment of that ideal. Personal growth is evident and shows diversity of experience, as the maturing relationships with the role and workplace unfurl. Where tenure track is a very personal journey, the period around tenure is necessarily a form of engagement with peers. Yet it has challenges, particularly in a milieu where academic freedom is being nurtured. Individual authors negotiate their choices between their personal objectives and institutional mandates and policies. Simultaneously, after years in the tenure-track, they continue to be evolving as academics, whether through personal growth or by seeking changes in the academy itself.
Published in English.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section 1: The Review of Literature
1. Are We There Yet? Understanding the Meanings of Tenure
Manu Sharma
Section 2: Reflecting on the Tenure Journey: The Individual and the Institutional
2. Of Joys and Sorrows: Lessons Learned in Applying for Tenure and Promotion
Carmen Rodriguez de France
3. Starting From Scratch After Tenure to Run a New Lab in France
Margarida Romero
4. Transitioning to the Academic Tenure-Track at Mid-Career:
Exploring Adaptive Responses Through the Lenses of Resilience, Grieving, and Institutional Logics
Peter Milley
5. Tenured Life: Rhythms, Time, and Energy
Cecile Badenhorst
6. Women Reflect on Remaining an Academic: Challenges and Supports
S. Penney, G. Young, C. Badenhorst, H. McLeod, S. Moore, and S. Pickett
Section 3: Reflecting on the Tenure Journey: The Systemic and Institutional
7. For Academy's Sake: A Former Practitioner Settles in Academe
Lloyd Kornelsen
8 Indigenous Scholarship: What Really Matters and to Whom?
Onowa McIvor and Trish Rosborough
9. Establishing Balance to Define a New Normal
Timothy M. Sibbald
10. The Mid-Career Indigenous Scholar: Navigating the Institutional Confluence of Indigeneity and Academia in Post-Tenure-Track
Frank Deer
11. An Incredible Journey: Passing Through the Gateway
Victoria (Tory) Handford
12. Potholes and Possibilities: Pursuing Academic Interests in the Era of the Corporate University
Greg Ogilvie
Section 4: Reflecting on the Tenure Journey: The Personal and Individual
13. Finding Energy From "Productive Anguish": Avoiding Descents into Tenure-Track Darkness
Lyle Hamm
14. Relationships, Associations, and Authority
Lee Anne Block
15. It's Not Me, It's the Process
Kathy Snow
16. Jill Revisited—Still Struggling With Mental Illness Within Academia Post-Tenure
Joan M. Chambers
17. In the Trenches
Greg Rickwood
18. Who Am I? Professional Identity on the Path to Tenure
Cam Cobb
Conclusion
Contributors
Index
