The academic gateway : understanding the journey to tenure / edited by Timothy M. Sibbald, Victoria Handford.

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English
Published/​Created
  • [Ottawa, Ontario] : University of Ottawa Press, [2017]
  • ©2017
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284 pages : charts; 23 cm.

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    "The Academic Gateway: Understanding the Journey to Tenure investigates the experiences of professors employed in tenure-track positions who are starting their career within a university environment, but have not attained the affirmation and permanence that tenure offers. The role that they have taken entails the preparation of students within a professional school. Some of them have very limited professional experience, while others bring multiple years of experience with them in their transition to a faculty of education. The contributors explicitly speak to the three key components of their faculty role: teaching, service, and research. They address organizational structures and differences relative to prior roles that have assisted, confused or required changes to the way they conduct their day-to-day work. They speak about relevant prior experiences, the preparation they received through graduate school, and the details of the learning curve as they entered into their tenure track role. Have they been successful? The reader will experience the same uncertainty and anticipation every professor goes through during their journey to tenure. This approach amplifies the realism of not knowing whether issues that are spoken about will ultimately be overcome and enhances the validity by not biasing the contributions towards those who expect success."-- Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • On the tenure-track: navigating research, teaching, and service responsibilities in a U15 institution / Frank Deer
    • Meet Jill: she fell down the hill but came back up again: struggling with mental illness while on the path to tenure / Joan M. Chambers
    • Re-locating: moving between the field and the university / Lee Anne Block
    • Belonging differently: immigration, identity, and tenure-track / Cecile Badenhorst
    • The three-headed monster / Greg Rickwood
    • Women reflect on becoming an academic: challenges and supports / Memorial's Education Writing Group
    • I think you are ambivalent: the realities of indigenous scholarship in mainstream universities / Onowa McIvor, Mara̕ del Carmen Rodrg̕uez de France, and Trish Rosborough
    • A dynamic duet: fluid mentorship and holistic co-teaching / Manu Sharma and Cam Cobb
    • Practitioner to academic: a composition of transitions / Timothy M. Sibbald
    • Surviving and thriving in the first years of tenure-track: a journey through France, Spain, and Quebec / Margarida Romero
    • For academy's sake: a former practitioner's search for scholarly relevance / Lloyd Kornelsen
    • Transitioning to the academic tenure-track at mid-career: exploring adaptive and maladaptive responses to challenges and adversity / Peter Milley
    • From there to here / Victoria (Tory) Handford
    • The "ten-year road" to tenure: a personal narrative of the beginning phases of the journey / Greg Ogilvie
    • Professor, student, mother: can you have it all? / Kathy Snow
    • Just today and just tomorrow: building capacity on the tenure-track in New Brunswick / Lyle Hamm.
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    Issued also in electronic format.
    ISBN
    • 9780776624372 ((softcover))
    • 0776624377
    OCLC
    980364624
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