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Countdown to Prof. Timm
Sun Aug 24 07:14:49 PDT 2008
Welcome to the 3rd year tenure track grind. The next three months are exactly the time I put things in place to get promoted in 2.5 years.
And no one lets me forget that. Either by plan or accident, all these faculty people have been dropping into my office offering advice on how I can get promoted to full prof. at the end of my tenure track.
Normally tenure track is for assistant Professors and the end-tenure promotion is to associate.
But I am already an associate so the only way I can get a tenure pay bump is to go for full professor.
Sadly, due to the terms of my start up letter, none of my pre-2006 work counts to that goal. That is, those 29 journal pubs and $X million in grants are now forgotten, buried in the mists of time.
But I'm on track for promotion. I've been looking into other people's track record that got them promoted. I need 5 more journal pubs and 4 more completed masters and at, hopefully, one Ph.D.
That's a bit of a stretch in the next 2 years but it is possible. Right now I have revise-and-resubmits on three journal articles, one more written and ready to go, and one invited one for September.
Can't write anymore. Must get back to (re)writing journal papers.
