Articulates salient problems of tenure-track faculty, especially women and faculty of color. Offers a new paradigm to delineate ways in which the academic community can help socialize younger faculty, and honor differences more readily. “I think that this is one of the most interesting books on higher education that I have read in quite a while. It is also a good antidote to some of the negative books on higher education in recent years.”—Philip G. Altbach, Boston College “The topic is of great importance. The tenure process and the notions of academic freedom are being questioned by people within and outside the academic community. This study makes a significant contribution to an important field of study by offering insight into real life situations of pre-tenure faculty while also considering issues of diversity in the pre-tenure faculty ranks.”—Caroline S. Turner, University of Minnesota Research on the organizational culture in higher education affirms that congruent cultures are better than fragmented ones, and that managing culture is an oxymoron. Such analyses often lead to the assumptions that unity of purpose is essential and leadership is impossible. This book reframes rather than suppresses these notions, and by respecting the differences, builds a commonality between them. Using data on faculty socialization in academe, the authors consider how the work of cultural leadership becomes interpretation and facilitation rather than management. Through a series of interviews using experimental forms of ethnographic presentation, Tierney and Bensimon articulate salient problems of tenure-track faculty, especially women and faculty of color, and address the issue of individuals voluntarily leaving the tenure-track. They offer a new paradigm to delineate ways in which the academic community can help socialize younger faculty, and honor differences more readily.

Promotion and Tenure (Suny Series Frontiers in Education): Community and Socialization in Academe

Education & Teaching

William G. Tierney

Estela Mara Bensimon

Higher & Continuing Education

State University of New York Press

Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms of its conceptual and methodological rigor, and sets forth an agenda for future research intended to advance knowledge on the chosen topic. The Handbook focuses on twelve general areas that encompass the salient dimensions of scholarly and policy inquiries undertaken in the international higher education community. The series is fortunate to have attracted annual contributions from distinguished scholars throughout the world.

Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, Volume I (Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, 1)

Smart, John C.

Kluwer Academic Publishers

Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities.

Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, Volume II (Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, 2)

Science & Math

Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, Volume III (Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, 3)

Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews. These cover a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities.

Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, Volume IV (Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, 4)

Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, Volume V (Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, 5)

Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities.

Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, Volume VI (Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, 6)

Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, Volume VIII (Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, 8)

Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, Volume IX (Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, 9)

Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, Volume X (Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, 10)

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