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While I am still probably 2-3 years away from making a serious push to be considered for an Associate Prof position, I decided last year to make a concerted effort to give myself the best shot. I have attended a number of meetings/presentations/talks about the Promotion & Tenure (P&T) process, and while I feel like I have a much better game plan than say a year or two ago….I'd still like to solicit some feedback/suggestions and also share what I've learned thus far, with the hope of generating some additional ideas. Instead of talking about the nitty-gritty of requirements, which can vary greatly by setting/university, I'd like to talk about a more general "game plan" that can be tweaked to at least get people on the right path.
Here are a couple of topics to start with, but please feel free to add more…
1. How are people keeping track of their productivity?
Obviously I update my CV, but I also keep a second document, which I'm going to call my Other Contributions List (OCL), that includes a lot of the "other" contributions I am making to my dept and hospital/university that are a benefit to the system. The idea of an OCL was a pearl of wisdom I picked up from one of the presentations I attended by some folks on our P&T Committee. It's been suggested to me to at least look at my CV once a month as a way to prompt me to update it, so I'm going to take the same approach with my OCL. I've been bad about updating both….but I guess I can change that.
2. Do you have a mentor or mentors to help with this process?
This was strongly recommended to me by multiple people who have served on P&T committees. I don't yet have an official mentor, but I'm in the process. I'm actually looking outside of my dept, hopefully with someone who has served on a P&T committee at some point in their career.
3. Any recs about how to increase collaboration across departments?
I know…I know…this seems to be a problem basically everywhere. The most common suggestion I get are to join hospital committee that go across depts and/or are outside of my regular sphere of colleagues. Any other good ones?
Please feel free to add more questions/areas to this.
Here are a couple of topics to start with, but please feel free to add more…
1. How are people keeping track of their productivity?
Obviously I update my CV, but I also keep a second document, which I'm going to call my Other Contributions List (OCL), that includes a lot of the "other" contributions I am making to my dept and hospital/university that are a benefit to the system. The idea of an OCL was a pearl of wisdom I picked up from one of the presentations I attended by some folks on our P&T Committee. It's been suggested to me to at least look at my CV once a month as a way to prompt me to update it, so I'm going to take the same approach with my OCL. I've been bad about updating both….but I guess I can change that.
2. Do you have a mentor or mentors to help with this process?
This was strongly recommended to me by multiple people who have served on P&T committees. I don't yet have an official mentor, but I'm in the process. I'm actually looking outside of my dept, hopefully with someone who has served on a P&T committee at some point in their career.
3. Any recs about how to increase collaboration across departments?
I know…I know…this seems to be a problem basically everywhere. The most common suggestion I get are to join hospital committee that go across depts and/or are outside of my regular sphere of colleagues. Any other good ones?
Please feel free to add more questions/areas to this.