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Starting a Tenure Box - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    Excellent advice on how to start early on gathering the information you'll need for a tenure dossier. Good for those going into academia
Rick West

My First Semester on the Tenure Track - Do Your Job Better - The Chronicle of Higher Ed... - 0 views

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    This is a pretty accurate description of the difficulties of the beginning of a tenure track job. It does get better!
Rick West

'But Does It Count?' - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    how does service count towards tenure?
Rick West

Good Deeds That Are Most Punished, Part 3: Research - Manage Your Career - The Chronicl... - 0 views

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    good advice on organizing your time around what's important.
Rick West

Graduate School Is a Means to a Job - Manage Your Career - The Chronicle of Higher Educ... - 0 views

  • If offered the option of writing a master's thesis, seriously consider taking it, as it can form the core of your first refereed journal article. Plan out a publishing trajectory to ensure that you have at least one sole-authored refereed journal article before you defend your dissertation.
  • Attend every job talk in your department and affiliated departments religiously. It matters not if those talks are in your field or subfield.
  • Take every opportunity available to present your work publicly.
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  • Make your mistakes in graduate school, where the stakes are low, so that you are a master of the podium when the stakes are high.
  • apply annually to present a paper at your national conference
  • Cultivate a letter writer who is not from your Ph.D.-granting institution.
  • Write your dissertation with an eye to the publications that it will become
  • You must publish enough to get a job without prematurely exhausting your supply of material you will need for tenure.
  • Remember that the best dissertation is a finished dissertation.
  • Do what it takes to satisfy your committee and finish.
  • Be the sole instructor of at least one course
  • Go on the market while A.B.D. because you want to make your worst mistakes while you still have a year of financial support from your home department. Most people who prevail on the market need at least two years to do so.
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