Tenure Chase
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What Does It Take to Evaluate Teaching?
Posted by Chad Orzel on May 30, 2012 In which we compare a couple of different systems for evaluating teachers, looking at what’s involved in doing a fair assessment of a teacher’s performance. ——– Another casualty of the great blog upgrade, in the sense of a post that was delayed until the inspiration for it has been forgotten by most of the people…
Filtering Isn’t the Problem
Posted by Chad Orzel on May 19, 2011 Via Twitter, Daniel Lemire has a mini-manifesto advocating “social media” alternatives for academic publishing, citing “disastrous consequences” of the “filter-then-publish” model in use by traditional journals. The problem is, as with most such things, I’m not convinced that social media style publication really fixes all these problems. For example, one of his points is: The…
Career Guidance
Posted by Chad Orzel on July 18, 2007 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.
Unseemly Self-Congratulations
Posted by Chad Orzel on June 27, 2007 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 who passes the tenure review gets a letter from the faculty committee that handles tenure…
Officially Official
Posted by Chad Orzel on February 19, 2007 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! It took about half a second to decide to sign the copy indicating my acceptance,…
Statement on Teaching
Posted by Chad Orzel on January 4, 2007 One of the standard elements of most academic hiring and promotion applications, at least at a small liberal arts college, is some sort of statement from the candidate about teaching. This is called different things at different places– “statement of teaching philosophy” is a common term for it, and the tenure process here calls for…
All That I Want
Posted by Chad Orzel on December 19, 2006 A few weeks back, I was talking to my parents on the phone, and my mother asked “What do you want for Christmas?” “Tenure,” I said. Because, well, that’s what’s been on my mind.
The MLA on Tenure
Posted by Chad Orzel on December 11, 2006 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 own tenure case (a decision could come at any time, starting this week), there’s no…
Tom Petty Was Right
Posted by Chad Orzel on November 16, 2006 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 the course of the review (with the names removed), and the candidate gets a chance…
Seven Questions
Posted by Chad Orzel on November 6, 2006 I’m going to be too busy to blog much for the next few days. This is partly a matter of it being the end of the term, with lab reports due (drafts tomorrow, the final reports Thursday), and exams (next Thursday), and grading, and an end-of-term push in the lab with one of my research…
