Promotion & Tenure Resources

Policies & Procedures

Information about promotion and tenure at the University of North Georgia (UNG) can be found on the Academic Affairs website under Policies and Procedures in the Faculty Handbook.

Frequently Asked Questions

External Resources

Articles

From Faculty Focus:

From the Chronicle of Higher Education:

  • Tenured Twice by Amy Jones. One woman's story of recognizing that her first department/institution was not a good fit – just as she received tenure there – and her decision to pursue a position somewhere that would be a better fit.
  • Road Signs to Tenure by Miguel Mantero. Compiled advice from six tenured professors. Also, Were the Road Signs Wrong? Miguel's retrospective article as he comes up for tenure, written two years after the previous article, analyzes and responds to the earlier advice.
  • Shameless Self-Promotion by James Lang. "Given the unsupervised nature of much of what we do in this business, I am really in the best position both to describe and to evaluate my work most effectively," explains the author.
  • How First-Year Faculty Members Can Help Their Chairmen by Gene Fant, Jr. Suggestions for being proactive, from a department chair.
  • Keeping Your Research Alive by Rick Reis. How to make your research a priority, in the face of other, more urgent (but not necessarily more important) demands on your time.

From the Magna Academic Leader Newsletter. To access please log-in with your UNG ID and Password. Related titles are listed below:

CTLL also offers a variety of resources for Academic leaders on our Academic Leadership page.

Books

  • Getting Tenure (Survival Skills for Scholars), by Marcia Whicker, Jennie, Kronenfeld, and Ruth Strickland. This practical guide clarifies the tenure process and gives concrete advice for graduate students and junior faculty members on the strategy required to maximize the chance of achieving tenure.
  • Advice for New Faculty Members: Nihil Nimus, by Robert Boice.
    Boice provides a unique and essential guide to the start of a successful academic career.
  • Life on the Tenure Track: Lessons from the First Year, by James Lang.
    Lang narrates the story of his first year on the tenure track with wit and wisdom, detailing his moments of confusion, frustration, and even elation—in the classroom, at his writing desk, during his office hours, in departmental meetings—as well as his insights into the lives and working conditions of faculty in higher education today.
  • Preparing for Promotion, Tenure, and Annual Review: A Faculty Guide, by Robert M. Diamond
    This guide to helping faculty prepare for professional review, whether an annual event or at a key moment in their career, will help make this often stressful and confusing experience less challenging and provide faculty a sense of mastery over the process.

Other Tools & Resources

Charting Your Progress Toward Tenure. Guidelines and template for creating your own table to track your progress toward tenure provided by Science Education Resource Center at Carleton C

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