From Associate Professor to Professor:
Productive Decision-making at Mid-Career

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(For Recently Appointed Associate Tenure-System Professors)

Theodore H. Curry II, Associate Provost and Associate Vice President for Academic Human Resources
Deborah DeZure, Assistant Provost for Faculty and Organizational Development
Ian Gray, Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies
June Youatt, Senior Associate Provost
Panel of Deans, Chairs and Mid-Career Faculty

Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 8:30 a.m. - 11. a.m., Kellogg Center, Red Cedar A and B
(Registration begins at 8:00 a.m.; program begins at 8:30 a.m.)

In the last few years, MSU’s Faculty and Organizational Development unit has been asked to provide a program for newly tenured faculty members analogous to the “Survive and Thrive in the Tenure System” workshop for assistant professors.^[1] The objectives of this new workshop are to:

1) clarify expectations for attaining the rank of full professor;

2) enable new associate professors to better anticipate the opportunities and challenges they will face and to inform their mid career decision-making and experiences; and

3) provide a venue in which to ask questions about this new stage in their careers.

This new program is designed for and open to faculty who have attained tenure within the past five years or who are associate professors in the tenure system new to MSU and its reappointment and promotion process.
The workshop will include presentations by Theodore Curry, Ian Gray and June Youatt who comprise the group of senior academic administrators who review tenure, reappointment and promotion applications on behalf of the Provost. They will discuss the process and expectations for promotion to professor as well as MSU promotion data.. A panel of deans will share their observations and suggestions about productive approaches to the mid career experience followed by Questions and Answers. Deborah DeZure will then share highlights of a recent study of mid-career faculty at MSU and identify relevant MSU resources and support programs and services. The session will conclude with Questions and Answers with a panel of mid-career faculty, chairs and deans and a recap of critical themes.

Please register online at http://fod.msu.edu/SurviveThriveII/registeronline.asp

Survive and Thrive is designed for probationary tenure system faculty to provide assistance in functioning successfully within the tenure system at MSU. For more information about Survive and Thrive, visit http://fod.msu.edu/SurviveThrive/about.asp

[1] The workshop will also be helpful for associate professors new to MSU.