{"id":820,"date":"2006-11-16T10:43:42","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T10:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/16\/tom-petty-was-right\/"},"modified":"2006-11-16T10:43:42","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T10:43:42","slug":"tom-petty-was-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/16\/tom-petty-was-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Petty Was Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last step in the tenure review process (from my end) is the approval of the Procedure section of the report. By rule, the ad hoc committee sends the candidate a copy of the section describing what they did in the course of the review (with the names removed), and the candidate gets a chance to respond.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not quite sure what I would object to in this, as it&#8217;s a really sketchy outline of what they did, most of which is directly determined by the official procedures spelled out in the faculty manual. It&#8217;s a part of the process, though, so I read it over, and sent my official acceptance in this morning.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re curious about what&#8217;s involved, here&#8217;s a condensed version:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They read the file box full of research and teaching materials that I gave them in September.<\/li>\n<li>They found three people at other institutions to review my published work, and a fourth to come to campus and look at my lab.<\/li>\n<li>They interviewed the eight other faculty in the department who are on campus, and got a letter from the one person on sabbatical.<\/li>\n<li>They got letters from the chairs of the college committees that I served on, plus one unsolicited letter from an administrator about my interaction with students (which sounds ominous, phrased that way, but I also got a copy of the letter, and it was good).<\/li>\n<li>They interviewed twenty current students chosen from my class rosters by a random algorithm, and received letters from three recent alumni.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whatever you might think of the tenure process generally, you can&#8217;t say they&#8217;re not thorough.<\/p>\n<p>And now, all I can do is wait. I hate waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last step in the tenure review process (from my end) is the approval of the Procedure section of the report. By rule, the ad hoc committee sends the candidate a copy of the section describing what they did in the course of the review (with the names removed), and the candidate gets a chance&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/16\/tom-petty-was-right\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tom Petty Was Right<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tenure_chase","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}