Navigating Tenure and Beyond - A Guide for Early Career Faculty

This guide covers how to reach tenure through service, research, and teaching while empowering your graduate students and maintaining balance between your career and personal life. Sundar A. Christopher uses his own experience and hypothetical situations to illustrate best practices in goal setting, developing leadership amid institutional politics, and ways to benefit those you mentor. With a strong focus on research and tenure application and an inclusive point of view, this guide will be a key companion in many a professors' development.

Sundar A. Christopher is Dean of the College of Science and professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama at Huntsville.