- As soon as you're hired for a tenure-track position, the clock starts ticking. You'll typically go up for tenure review—and promotion to associate professor—in your sixth year at an institution.
- You'll submit a dossier that includes such items as your publications, grant funding, list of courses taught, sample syllabi, student evaluations and a summary of your service to your department, institution and field.
- You'll also submit a list of possible external evaluators; your department will generate its own list, and the chair will winnow the names down to half a dozen or so.
- There are typically two layers of decision-making—an initial decision by tenured faculty in your department and then layers of decision-makers outside your discipline, who may include a college-wide tenure and promotion committee, dean, provost and university president. At some schools, the board of trustees must also approve the decision. —Rebecca A. Clay
Clay, R. A. (2018, January 1). The tenure process. Monitor on Psychology, 49(7). https://www-apa-org.libdata2015.hilbert.edu/monitor/2018/07-08/tenure-process