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Tenure--How To Get It

Productivity Tuesday: It’s Not About Being a “Better” Worker

By Karen Kelsky | November 24, 2018

Testimonials from Unstuck participants: It is no exaggeration to state that Unstuck has changed my academic life. I was ready to leave academia as toxic working practices were taking over, and I had imported self-doubt and anxiety into my writing … [Read more...] about Productivity Tuesday: It’s Not About Being a “Better” Worker

Filed Under: How To Build Your Tenure File, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Productivity, Shame, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Unstuck, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Writing, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Always Have a Side Hustle, and Other Lessons I Learned from Academia (Part 2) – WOC Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | August 25, 2018

I am delighted to offer this guest post contributed in response to my recent call for contributions to the blog by black women and other women of color. I am still enthusiastically welcoming draft posts and ideas/pitches - send them to me at … [Read more...] about Always Have a Side Hustle, and Other Lessons I Learned from Academia (Part 2) – WOC Guest Post

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Women of Color in Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

An Example Public R1 Departmental Tenure Timeline

By Karen Kelsky | June 25, 2018

Number 5 in my series on tenure. After my previous posts The Path and Timeline of Your Tenure File, and The Role of Your Tenure Committee and Department Head, a reader sent in a timeline document of the Department Head's duties in the tenure process … [Read more...] about An Example Public R1 Departmental Tenure Timeline

Filed Under: How To Build Your Tenure File, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It

Your External Reviewers for Tenure

By Karen Kelsky | June 15, 2018

I'll begin with the usual caveat: all tenure processes are local. You MUST research your own department and campus to understand formal policies, informal practices, precedent, horror stories, and so on.  No general advice such as I provide can … [Read more...] about Your External Reviewers for Tenure

Filed Under: Dispatches, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It

The Role of Your Tenure Committee and Department Head

By Karen Kelsky | June 8, 2018

Continuing in the new series on tenure (this is #4, although I do have some earlier prior posts on the tenure process, all of which can be found in the "Tenure - How To Get It" Category) ----> Today I want to say a few words about the roles … [Read more...] about The Role of Your Tenure Committee and Department Head

Filed Under: How To Build Your Tenure File, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It

The Path and Timeline of Your Tenure Application

By Karen Kelsky | May 25, 2018

Part 2 of my series on Tenure Every institution has its own conventions, expectations and practices for tenure, and the single most important thing you must do, if you are on the tenure track, is bring your research A-game to the task of figuring … [Read more...] about The Path and Timeline of Your Tenure Application

Filed Under: Intersectional Analyses, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It

Why Your Tenure Statement Sucks

By Karen Kelsky | May 20, 2018

The Professor Is In has been going for 7+ years now (!!) and lots of our job market clients from years back are now coming up on tenure!  I'm thrilled that so many are getting back in touch for help writing their tenure statements. But I'm horrified … [Read more...] about Why Your Tenure Statement Sucks

Filed Under: Advising Advice, How To Build Your Tenure File, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It

How Karen Helped Me Land My Dream Job [A Very Nice Guest Post]

By Karen Kelsky | January 12, 2018

Note from Karen:  I am traveling this week on a family matter so will post about the Wall Street Journal coverage of the #MeTooPhD Sexual Harassment in the Academy Survey next week. Today I'm pleased to share this generous guest post by Professor … [Read more...] about How Karen Helped Me Land My Dream Job [A Very Nice Guest Post]

Filed Under: Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

How To Apply for Your Second Job

By Karen Kelsky | July 3, 2017

[Updated July 2017.] Today is a Special Request Post for Matt, who wishes to know the ins and outs of applying for a second tenure track job.   That is to say, how to apply for a job when you are already in a tenure track position but hope or dream … [Read more...] about How To Apply for Your Second Job

Filed Under: Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia, Your Second and Third Jobs Tagged With: applying for new tenure track job, applying for second tenure track job, applying for tenure track job

Laid Off From the Tenure Track – a Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | June 21, 2017

Stephanie Hinnershitz is currently an assistant professor in the Department of History at Cleveland State University in Ohio where she specializes in U.S. immigration history. Her first book, Race, Religion, and Civil Rights, was published by Rutgers … [Read more...] about Laid Off From the Tenure Track – a Guest Post

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Shame, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It

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