Innachonne Germano Iannacchione gsiannacwpiedu DMR Young Investigators Workshop 79 June 2017 TBD Tenure Before Death Germano Iannacchione Germano Iannacchione gsiannacwpiedu DMR Young Investigators Workshop ID: 599342
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TBDG. Innachonne
Germano Iannacchionegsiannac@wpi.edu
DMR Young Investigators Workshop
7-9 June 2017Slide2
TBD = Tenure Before DeathGermano Iannacchione
Germano Iannacchionegsiannac@wpi.edu
DMR Young Investigators Workshop
7-9 June 2017Slide3
You want to be a Professor: 3
This. Is. …
Academia!! Slide4
What it can feel like …4Slide5
Getting help …5
Opinions
Opinions
everywhereSlide6
BUT, once you succeed …6
y
ou were
ALWAYS
going to succeed.Slide7
Tenure-Track Position7
Tenure-track positions are probationary positions (usually at the Assistant Professor level) for typically 5 years.
Achieving tenure means you are “vested” in the university. This comes with rights AND responsibilities.
Tenure protects your academic freedom (it does NOT mean that you can’t be fired … only that there is a set procedure for termination).
However, administration rarely invoke the procedures, hence “permanent”.
Usually commensurate with promotion to
Associate Professor
.Slide8
Criteria for Tenure8
Tenure and promotion of YOU usually judged in 3 areas: Scholarship (research), Teaching, and Service.
Demonstrated growth and “high” achievement in all areas expected (feels like they want 100% effort in each).
Evidence for achievement can take many forms. Quantity versus Quality!
All administrations infected by
mononumerosis
; a disease that causes one to reduce a complex system to one number.
Funding is unarguable
; convincing someone to pay for your ideas is a powerful measure of achievement.Slide9
Sanity Break9Slide10
Procedure for Tenure10
Tenure process begins at the departmental level with (hopefully) yearly evaluations on your progress. If not available, do it yourself!If all goes well, the department typically nominates you for tenure and promotion to a campus-wide (read inter-disciplinary) committee.Application package usually contains a detailed CV (with citation analysis), a narrative on research, teaching, and service, examples of works, and perhaps a teaching portfolio.
Support letters from applicant’s colleagues (usually arranged by applicant) and blind external reviews solicited by campus-wide committee (VERY important).
Networking is SO important! Visibility!Slide11
Managing your career:11Slide12
Innovation Trap
Everybody wants thisFew know what it means
Always criticized
; Only obvious after the fact.
Consider the example of Music –
Live Performance ancient times
Modern Sheet Music
~ 1473 AD
Phonographs / Radio late 19
th
century
CD late 20
th
century
Digital early 21
st
century
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Measures that matter
13Funding is a means to an end, NOT the end
Scholarship = traditional research funding
Teaching = curriculum / pedagogy grants
Service = workshops, program development, etc.
Discovery must disseminate and have
impact
Academia = Students
! You are
managing
your research and career.
In the end, it is your students that you will remember and carry on your legacy.Slide14
Final Thoughts
How do you want to be remembered? By your colleagues? By your students? By your family?Be true to yourself and your passion!Learn to Fail Successfully
Failing means your trying
Engineering approach: First make it work, then make it work better.
Learn to preserve your passion in the face of failure.
“I am sorry to say so, but sadly its true. That bang ups and hang ups can happen to you” – Dr. Seuss.
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Helpful Perspectives
15Life is not fair. But its not fair to everyone. Which makes it kind of fair.
Many people don’t deserve what they get … and don’t get what they deserve.
DON’T PANIC
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy