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Navigating the Tenure Track: Insights and Strategies for Future Leaders in Manufacturing Education

This piece explores the tenure track process, likened to the challenges in NASCAR racing, highlighting the journey toward earning tenure in academia. It emphasizes the importance of real-world experience, mentoring, and resilience in facing potential setbacks—bumps and potholes—along the way. Key insights include the need for contingency planning, the value of collaboration, and the role of mentors as pace cars in one’s academic career path. This framework serves to prepare new faculty for success and leadership in manufacturing education.

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Navigating the Tenure Track: Insights and Strategies for Future Leaders in Manufacturing Education

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  1. T E N U R E T R A C K

  2. T E N U R E T R A C K

  3. S E N U R E T R A C K

  4. S E N U R E T R A C K

  5. S E N V R E T R A C K

  6. E S E N V R T R A C K

  7. S E N V A E T R A C K

  8. S E N V A E T R A C K

  9. S E N V A E T R A C N

  10. S E N V A E T R A C N Coincidence?

  11. NASCAR:A Metaphor for the Tenure Process Become Prominent Leaders in Manufacturing Education Mentor New Students Earn Tenure Work in the real world Earn PhD Secure Academic Position Return to Stanford for PhD

  12. The PlanThe archetypical FPM? • Work in the real world • Return to Stanford for PhD • Earn a PhD • Secure academic position • Teaching and research in manufacturing related areas • Earn Tenure • Become prominent leaders in manufacturing education • Mentor new students to renew the cycle time

  13. Interesting Data • Business Week 3/1/04 • Short supply of Business PhDs • 1,095 Business School PhDs in 2002, of which 40% headed to corporate America • Schools cutting back on PhD programs • Use of practitioners • WSJ 6/12/02 • 8% of all fully funded business school positions vacant • Aging faculty at 660 business schools • Business Degree is popular (for now…)

  14. On the other hand • UNC had 150 applicants for its faculty opening in operations management

  15. NASCAR:A Metaphor for the Tenure Process Bumps and Potholes on the tenure track

  16. Bumps on theTenure Track

  17. Potholes on theTenure Track

  18. Bumps and potholes on the Tenure Track • What happens if you don’t get an academic job? • What happens if you don’t get tenure? • How might you prepare for these possibilities? • What are alternative tracks? Contingency Planning

  19. Terminology • Bite. Bite is an FPM’s ability to “stick,” or adhere, to the tenure track. • Dialed in. When an FPM’s performing at his/her maximum. Also called “hooked up,” or “getting 5 MS hits.” • Drafting. The practice of following immediately behind a colleague to take advantage of his/her “punching a hole” in the wind. Also called “collaboration.” • Handling. A reference to an FPM’s career performance with relation to his/her ability to control it. • Pace car. The official helper that leads FPMers at a safe speed during caution periods and restarts. Also called “mentor.” • Restrictor plate. A plate attached to the carburetor that limits the amount of airflow entering the combustion chamber. Also called “referee.” • Running on rails. Used to describe an FPM that is handling perfectly, as if it was literally attached to a rail. Also called “rare.”

  20. Caption: wouldn’t they run out of pedestrians after a while? Speed Bumps on theTenure Track

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