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Faculty Promotion and Tenure: Eight Ways to Improve the Tenure Review Process at Your Institution

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New academic tenure and promotion processes, often developed to reflect changing needs or dispel old assumptions, cannot and should not be implemented overnight, but they are worth close examination to see if similar processes would make sense for your school.

It’s no wonder then, when it comes to faculty promotion and tenure policies, colleges and universities tread lightly while at the same time are always seeking new, better ways to bring more transparency and clarity to this critical system.

This Faculty Focus special report features thought-provoking articles from Academic Leader, and was created to provide you with new perspectives on the promotion and tenure process.

This special report is free when you sign-up for Faculty Focus, a free online resource filled with effective teaching strategies written by faculty members just like you.

Here are the timely articles you will find in this report:

  • It’s Not Just a Series of Workshops: Reevaluating Faculty Development to Improve Recruitment, Retention, and Tenurability of Faculty
  • After Promotion and Tenure: Maintaining Faculty’s Upward Trajectory
  • Five Tips for Making Tenure
  • The Multiple Roles of Department Chairs in Guiding Career Changes
  • Bowing Out Gracefully: Why Teaching Institutions Should Eliminate Publication Requirements
  • Listening to (and Appreciating) the Voices on the Front Lines
  • The Associate Professor Chair: Making Progress to Full Rank
  • Evaluating Online Teaching: Implementing Best Practices
  • Evaluating Online Instructors: Invite the Faculty or Go in Cold?