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[wanna_writemore]

Sorry to hear that, ST - I think sometimes more senior people forget to think about how a comment can affect those of us who are lower down the totem pole (or they can just be ********!).


My tenure app is due early fall semester, and it takes forever to get through the system.  I'm alternately feeling okay and very nervous.  I'm in a book field, and the word on the street is, if you're in a book field, and you have a book, you'll sail right through.  My book will be at the printer by August, so I should be okay, but I'm still nervous.

[oatmeal]

My tenure app is due early fall semester, and it takes forever to get through the system.  I'm alternately feeling okay and very nervous.  I'm in a book field, and the word on the street is, if you're in a book field, and you have a book, you'll sail right through.  My book will be at the printer by August, so I should be okay, but I'm still nervous.
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Will your book be out by the time your case is evaluated? Or, can in-press suffice? I would check this (assuming you have not already done so). Going through tenure is an anxious time and many untenured colleagues will take comments from tenured colleagues the wrong way (but understandably so). I can also be an anxious time for tenured colleagues, especially if there is a marginal case. Good luck to everyone up for tenure this coming academic year.

[wanna_writemore]

My tenure app is due early fall semester, and it takes forever to get through the system.  I'm alternately feeling okay and very nervous.  I'm in a book field, and the word on the street is, if you're in a book field, and you have a book, you'll sail right through.  My book will be at the printer by August, so I should be okay, but I'm still nervous.

Will your book be out by the time your case is evaluated? Or, can in-press suffice? I would check this (assuming you have not already done so). Going through tenure is an anxious time and many untenured colleagues will take comments from tenured colleagues the wrong way (but understandably so). I can also be an anxious time for tenured colleagues, especially if there is a marginal case. Good luck to everyone up for tenure this coming academic year.

It will probably be out by the time my case gets to the middle/later part of the process, which should be fine, although one never knows.  I've asked my chair straight-out, and he's confident it'll be fine.  At this point, there's nothing I can do about it, so it is what it is.   

[oatmeal]

My tenure app is due early fall semester, and it takes forever to get through the system.  I'm alternately feeling okay and very nervous.  I'm in a book field, and the word on the street is, if you're in a book field, and you have a book, you'll sail right through.  My book will be at the printer by August, so I should be okay, but I'm still nervous.

Will your book be out by the time your case is evaluated? Or, can in-press suffice? I would check this (assuming you have not already done so). Going through tenure is an anxious time and many untenured colleagues will take comments from tenured colleagues the wrong way (but understandably so). I can also be an anxious time for tenured colleagues, especially if there is a marginal case. Good luck to everyone up for tenure this coming academic year.

It will probably be out by the time my case gets to the middle/later part of the process, which should be fine, although one never knows.  I've asked my chair straight-out, and he's confident it'll be fine.  At this point, there's nothing I can do about it, so it is what it is.   

That sounds fine then. Good luck. I know some colleagues have worried about the "in print" or "in process" status for a book field. But if you chair is confident that will help and a strong letter/vote of support at the department level will make a difference. As you say, it is what it is.

[lyndonparker]

Where a publication has to be in the process is highly dependent upon the institution at which you serve. At my doctoral institution, publications had to be in hand to count. At my very good SLAC, a letter or E-mail from an editor indicating acceptance counts. I know which I prefer.

[commprof57]

My package is due in September.  I have put it all together now I just have to submit it.  From people tell me and the provost has said that I have a strong case, but I am still really nervous.  I am at a place that traditionally does tenure first then promotion, but b/c of our contract change I am doing both at once.  I hope I get both (of course I will take tenure above Associate, but I think I have a record for both).

[poresp]

Good luck to everyone going up this year!!!  I truly wish you the best, and hope you may open with joy your letters of congratulations!

Remember, again, that it isn't the size of the letter that counts; it's what's in it that matters :)

[rambling]

File is due September 1. I am in panic mode as I am trying to fit too many things into one summer, which is unfortunately more than halfway done...

People tell me not to worry, but I cannot imagine not worrying. I am considering changing my monicker to worrying, at least temporarily...

[minimimi]

Checking in for the first time on this thread:

My uni is making a transition to electronic evaluations, and to my undying paranoia people keep describing my case as a "guinea pig." So I'm putting together my portfolio as an omnibus PDF. I know Acrobat more intimately than I ever dreamed I would.

As for not worrying, is it just me or does our cohort have absolutely craptastic timing? We went through third-year review right after the 2008 econopocolypse: partly because I know two people who were let go at different institutions at third-year review, I was terrified during that whole process, given the hiring freezes and (unfulfilled) rumors of furloughs that year. Now I'm concerned about the repercussions of the debt-ceiling standoff.

But, as people keep telling me, don't worry.

[seniorscholar]

People tell me not to worry, but I cannot imagine not worrying. I am considering changing my monicker to worrying, at least temporarily...

I may have mentioned this before, but several days after I had the final tenure letter from the university president in hand (that is, after hearing about the department vote, the college vote, etc., etc. -- all unofficially, but from dependable sources of rumor), I woke up one morning and realized I felt really healthy, and then discovered that I had been feeling like I had a low-grade flu for about 10 years: dissertation writing, job hunting, pre-tenure, etc. And then, like magic, I was healthy.

Hope you get healthy too!!

[southerntransplant]

People tell me not to worry, but I cannot imagine not worrying. I am considering changing my monicker to worrying, at least temporarily...

I may have mentioned this before, but several days after I had the final tenure letter from the university president in hand (that is, after hearing about the department vote, the college vote, etc., etc. -- all unofficially, but from dependable sources of rumor), I woke up one morning and realized I felt really healthy, and then discovered that I had been feeling like I had a low-grade flu for about 10 years: dissertation writing, job hunting, pre-tenure, etc. And then, like magic, I was healthy.

Hope you get healthy too!!

A colleague mentioned that he underwent a tremendous weight drop after getting tenure. I wasn't sure of the rationale, but he thought it was just the release of stress. I didn't know that stress had mass, but I'm not throwing out any trousers just in case.

[litdawg]

I'm in the 2005 cohort, but a year-long LOA has me submitting my tenure application this October. The process looks pretty smooth from here since we're a union shop and I've submitted a retention package every year that is very similar to the tenure application. However, our dean quit over the summer, and the university system has been cut over 20% this year alone. I wonder if tenure and no promotion is a possibility.

[southerntransplant]

I'm in the 2005 cohort, but a year-long LOA has me submitting my tenure application this October. The process looks pretty smooth from here since we're a union shop and I've submitted a retention package every year that is very similar to the tenure application. However, our dean quit over the summer, and the university system has been cut over 20% this year alone. I wonder if tenure and no promotion is a possibility.

You might get tenure and a promotion, but no raise. I'm wondering if that is what I'll be looking at. I'll start flying my flag if that's the case.

[vowelstate]

Hi all --

My tenure file is due on September 9th; things need to be ready for my colleagues' input on/around August 26.
Naturally, I waited until the last minute to start pulling things together AND my husband brought home a new dog to foster. Argh!!

Words of support would really help..

[wellfleet]

Good luck! My package is due in about a month, and while I've done a lot of the work, I'm far from done, and I have tons of other responsibilities in the next few weeks.  It *will* all get finished, somehow.