Promotion & Tenure
Career Development of Assistant Professors
There should be a major plan worked out with every new arrival to
a unit so that there is an orderly progression to promotion, within
a reasonable time. Participation should be offered in a number of activities,
and help and assistance given as needed. A coordinated plan of development
suited to the academic unit and the candidate concerned should be devised
and updated annually. In units that have a considered plan for their
members, this progression is worked out in detail with allowance for
an orderly development in all of the three categories that are concerned
in promotion. Teaching functions and the setting up of courses should
take priority. Then a research program should be mounted and, finally,
some shouldering of service responsibilities should be undertaken.
A new assistant professor should not be heavily laden with service
commitments in the first year. The entire commitment should be under
the guidance of senior people, or a single designated mentor, who should
take an active role in career development.
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