Bibliographical references are included at the end of each chapter.
Includes an index.

Introduction

Section I EDITORS' PREFACE - LATE-TENURE TRACK

1. On the Tenure-Track: Navigating Research, Teaching, and Service Responsibilities in a U15 Institution / Frank Deer

2. Meet Jill - She Fell Down the Hill but Came Back Up Again: Struggling with Mental Illness While on the Path to Tenure / Joan M. Chambers

3. Re-Locating: Moving Between the Field and the University / Lee Anne Block

4. Belonging Differently: Immigration, Identity, and Tenure-Track / Cecile Badenhorst

5. The Three-Headed Monster / Greg Rickwood

Section II EDITORS' PREFACE - TENURE-TRACK COLLABORATION

6. Women Reflect on Becoming an Academic: Challenges and Supports / Memorial's Education Writing Group

7. I Think You Are Ambivalent: The Realities of Indigenous Scholarship in Mainstream Universities / Onowa McIvor, Maria del Carmen Rodrigues de France, and Trish Rosborough

8. A Dynamic Duet: Fluid Mentorship and Holistic Co-Teaching / Manu Sharma and Cam Cobb

Section III EDITORS' PREFACE - MID-TENURE TRACK

9. Practitioner to Academic: A Composition of Transitions / Timothy M. Sibbald

10. Surviving and Thriving in the First Years of Tenure-Track: A Journey Through France, Spain, and Québec / Margarida Romero

11. For Academy's Sake: A Former Practitioner's Search for Scholarly Relevance / Lloyd Kornelsen

12. Transitioning to the Academic Tenure-Track at Mid-Career: Exploring Adaptive and Maladaptive Responses to Challenges and Adversity / Peter Milley

Section IV EDITORS' PREFACE - EARLY TENURE-TRACK

13. From There to Here / Victoria (Tory) Handford

14. The "Ten-Year Road" to Tenure: A Personal Narrative of the Beginning Phases of the Journey / Greg Ogilvie

15. Professor, Student, Mother: Can You Have It All? / Kathy Snow

16. Just Today and Just Tomorrow: Building Capacity on the Tenure-Track in New Brunswick / Lyle Hamm

Conclusion - TENURE-TRACK ADVICE

Contributors

Index

"The Academic Gateway documents the challenges of attaining tenure in today's university environment. The contributors speak to the three key components of their faculty role: teaching, service, and research. Addressing organizational structures and differences relative to prior roles, they examine how these changes have assisted, confused or altered the way they conduct their day-to-day work. They discuss relevant prior experiences, the preparation they received through graduate school, and the details of the learning curve as they enter into their tenure-track role. Written in a highly personalized style, the reader will share in the uncertainty and anticipation all professors experience on their journey to tenure. The outcome, whether or not they succeed, is deliberately left unanswered. This approach amplifies the realism of not knowing whether issues can and will ultimately be overcome. It also enhances the validity of these experiences by not biasing the contributions towards those who know the outcome." (Book Cover)