History of tenure
Although vestiges of the modern tenure system can be found in higher education as far back as the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, tenure as we know it today is largely a by-product of the twentieth...
View ArticleExciting Announcement!
Today is an exciting day as I’m so happy to announce my latest book will be published in early July. “How to Get Tenure: Strategies for Successfully Navigating the Process” will be published by...
View ArticleWhy we have tenure in higher education
If you’re going to write a book entitled How to Get Tenure, you are going to get a lot of comments about how tenure is ruining higher education. Even among faculty and certainly administrators, there...
View ArticleTypes of Academic Service for Faculty
There are two primary ways to categorize types of faculty service (Fear & Sandmann, 1995; O’Meara, Terosky, & Neumann, 2008; Ward, 2003). First, there are service activities that take place on...
View Article5 Challenges with faculty and data strategy
In today’s accountability climate, institutional leaders create and rely on data- driven decisions to promote the success of their institutions. Much of this data collection is delegated to internal...
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