February 1, 2002

Do You Have to Be a Nice Person to Win Tenure?

By PIPER FOGG

Collegiality rears its pretty head in a fight at UNLV

Marcella Ann McClure focused on setting up her laboratory, getting grants, and doing research when she began a tenure-track biology position at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas in 1993.

But as she approached her tenure review, she found out that she wasn't paying enough attention to the invisible item on the tenure checklist -- collegiality. In addition to teaching, research, and service, she argues, she shouldn't

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