Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction

Section 1: The Review of Literature

1. Are We There Yet? Understanding the Meanings of Tenure / Manu Sharma

Section 2: Reflecting on the Tenure Journey: The Individual and the Institutional

2. Of Joys and Sorrows: Lessons Learned in Applying for Tenure and Promotion / Carmen Rodriguez de France

3. Starting From Scratch After Tenure to Run a New Lab in France / Margarida Romero

4. Transitioning to the Academic Tenure-Track at Mid-Career: Exploring Adaptive Responses Through the Lenses of Resilience, Grieving, and Institutional Logics / Peter Milley

5. Tenured Life: Rhythms, Time, and Energy / Cecile Badenhorst

6. Women Reflect on Remaining an Academic: Challenges and Supports / Sharon Penney, Gabrielle Young, Cecile Badenhorst, Heather McLeod, Sylvia Moore, and Sarah Pickett

Section 3: Reflecting on the Tenure Journey: The Systemic and Institutional

7. For Academy’s Sake: A Former Practitioner Settles in Academe / Lloyd Kornelsen

8 Indigenous Scholarship: What Really Matters and to Whom? / Onowa McIvor and Trish Rosborough

9. Establishing Balance to Define a New Normal / Timothy M. Sibbald

10. The Mid-Career Indigenous Scholar: Navigating the Institutional Confluence of Indigeneity and Academia in Post-Tenure-Track / Frank Deer

11. An Incredible Journey: Passing Through the Gateway / Victoria (Tory) Handford

12. Potholes and Possibilities: Pursuing Academic Interests in the Era of the Corporate University / Greg Ogilvie

Section 4: Reflecting on the Tenure Journey: The Personal and Individual

13. Finding Energy From “Productive Anguish”: Avoiding Descents into Tenure-Track Darkness / Lyle Hamm

14. Relationships, Associations, and Authority / Lee Anne Block

15. It’s Not Me, It’s the Process / Kathy Snow

16. Jill Revisited — Still Struggling With Mental Illness Within Academia Post-Tenure / Joan M. Chambers

17. In the Trenches / Greg Rickwood

18. Who Am I? Professional Identity on the Path to Tenure / Cam Cobb

Conclusion

Contributors

Index

«"In developing the theory, we sought to provide a conceptual framework for understanding the varied experiences in the tenure-track. Theoretically, we understood that some who move into the academy experience a major upheaval that affects many aspects of their lives."
Does the tenure-track follow a specific model or is each path built on personal choices and self-determination? Beyond the Academic Gateway brings together lived experiences of academics around the time of the tenure decision. While the book is stand-alone, it regroups the same authors who wrote about their tenure-track experiences in the Academic Gateway, making the pair a remarkable longitudinal collection.
Provided by publisher. The authors explore the complex relationship between academics, the academy as an ideal, and universities as an enactment of that ideal. Where tenure-track is a very personal journey, the period around tenure is necessarily a form of engagement with peers. Yet it has a challenges, particularly in a milieu where academic freedom is being nurtured.
In this book, individual authors negotiate their choices between their personal objectives and institutional mandates and policies. Simultaneously, after years in the tenure-track, they continue to evolve as academics whether through personal growth or by seeking changes in the academy itself. »

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