What Changes with Tenure?
Achieving tenure is a, often the, major milestone in the span of an academic career. But what changes with tenure? How do the pre- and post-tenure landscapes differ? For too many faculty the answer can be mired in too many…
Why Hire a Facilitator for Your Faculty Retreat?
In the high paced, high autonomy world of an academic department, it can be vital for all quarters of a department to have time to consider the big picture – whether the focus is on a long range plan, a…
What Changes at Promotion to Full Professor?
Does anything change at the promotion from Associate Professor to Full Professor? When asked, the first response of most faculty is “it’s just like any other day.” Some even feel that’s just the way it should be. For many faculty,…
What Makes a Good Tenure Decision?
The tenure decision is one of the most examined processes in tenure-granting colleges and universities, with criteria, policies, mentoring programs, and considerable amounts of blood, sweat, and tears invested on the part of those being evaluated and those doing the…
Start with Heart – Ok, but which one?
One of the foundational pieces of the Crucial Conversations ** paradigm for dealing with conflict is: Start with Heart. One translation of that is the question, what do I want? Or, what do I really want? There is invariably a layered…
