Tenure Chase:
A comment I made at a meeting yesterday that I think is worth reproducing out of context: A big part of making it from junior faculty to tenure is deciding which bits of unsolicited contradictory advice you're going to ignore....
Posted on July 18, 2007 8:52 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The final step in the tenure process here is the Very Nice Letter. I'm not sure that it's an official step, as opposed to an established tradition, but whichever it actually is, at the end of the process, a candidate...
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Posted on June 27, 2007 7:35 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In my campus mailbox this morning: Dear Chad: I am pleased to report that on Februrary 10, 2007 the Board of Trustees approved our recommendation that you be tenured effective September 1, 2007 at the rank of Associate Professor. Woo-hoo!...
Posted on February 19, 2007 11:29 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Here's what I sound like when I expound on my philosophy of teaching physics.
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Posted on January 4, 2007 11:12 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"What do you want for Christmas?" "Tenure."
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Posted on December 19, 2006 5:37 PM • 110 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Inside Higher Ed had a story on Friday about a Modern Language Association study on tenure and promotion. The study group just released its final report (available for download here. Given that I'm waiting to hear the results of my...
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Posted on December 11, 2006 11:14 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The last step in the tenure review process (from my end) is the approval of the Procedure section of the report. By rule, the ad hoc committee sends the candidate a copy of the section describing what they did in...
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Posted on November 16, 2006 10:43 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm going to be too busy to blog much for the next few days, while I think of answers to seven questions.
Posted on November 6, 2006 9:16 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Steinn reports a new metric for research productivity that some people are using: the "H-number": The H-score, takes all your papers, ranked by citation count; then you take the largest "k" such that the kth ranked paper has at least...
Posted on October 27, 2006 9:48 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Behold, the Tenure Box: Well, actually, it's an oversize milk crate, but that's nit-picking. The stuff in the box is all for my tenure review: the blue folders are copies of my research materials, the green folders are my teaching...
Posted on September 1, 2006 7:55 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Another post from the tenure packet: my CV in ugly HTML.
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Posted on August 25, 2006 10:38 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The special Windows XP Academic Edition...
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Posted on August 25, 2006 8:57 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm in the process of putting together my tenure documents (I know I've been saying this for weeks. It's a long process, OK?). Most of these are really not appropriate for reproduction here, but I'll post a few of the...
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Posted on August 15, 2006 10:58 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Prof. Orzel gives the impression of an everyday guy who just happens to have a vast but hidden knowledge of physics." (anonymous student evaluation comment)
