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Promotion and Tenure: Community and Socialization in Academereviewed by Robert T. Blackburn - 1997 Title: Promotion and Tenure: Community and Socialization in Academe Author(s): William Tierney and Estela Bensimon Publisher: State University of New York Press, Albany ISBN: 0791429784, Pages: 161, Year: 1996 Search for book at Amazon.com This little book deals with an important and controversial
issue. Its title, however, misleads the reader. The book is not
directly about promotion and tenure. Rather, it deals with junior
faculty, from the launching of their careers to their departure or
their acquisition of tenure. (American Association of University
Professors [AAUP] publications use the term "probationary.") One
might better label this book the need far communities of
difference and the anticipatory and organizational socialization of
beginning faculty (p.140). Tierney and Bensimon's mission is to
change today's academic culture for the sake of assistant
professors—especially for women faculty and faculty of
color—by refining and restructuring the promotion and tenure
process (p. 129).
Tierney and Bensimon interviewed 202 assistant professors in 12
different institutions varying in Carnegie type (but no community
colleges), kind of control (public or private), and student body
size. Seventy percent were white and 60 percent were in liberal
arts and science departments (Appendix A, pp. 149-50). The short
interview schedule is in Appendix B (pp. 151-52).... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Robert Blackburn
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
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