Getting Tenure (Survival Skills for Scholars) - Softcover

Whicker, Marcia Lynn; Kronenfeld, Jennie; Strickland, Ruth Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803953038 ISBN 13: 9780803953031

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1993

Synopsis

This practical guide clarifies the tenure process and gives concrete advice for graduate students and junior faculty members on the strategy required to maximize the chance of achieving tenure. The authors explain the agenda of tenure decisions, emphasizing the need to think politically and focus attention on the priorities of the decision makers.

About this title

About the Author:

Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld is a professor in the Sociology Program in the School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University. Her research areas are medical sociology and aging and the life course with a special focus on health policy, health care utilization, and health behavior. She has recently published Medicare by Greenwood Press (2011) and serves as the editor of the research annual Research in the Sociology of Health and Health Care published each year by Emerald Press. She is co-editor of Health and Associate Editor In Chief of American Journal of Health Promotion. Her current research interests in addition to health policy include research on gender and health, and research on aspects of obesity as linked to social factors.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0803953038
• ISBN 13: 9780803953031
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160