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Part I Academic Ranks & Tenure in the national context Part II

2005 Annual Faculty Development Seminar Appointment, Promotion and Tenure In the Professorial Ranks. Part I Academic Ranks & Tenure in the national context Part II Appointment, Promotion & Tenure at NYUSoM. The Oath. To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents.

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Part I Academic Ranks & Tenure in the national context Part II

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  1. 2005AnnualFaculty Development SeminarAppointment, Promotion and TenureIn the Professorial Ranks

  2. Part I • Academic Ranks & Tenure in the national context • Part II • Appointment, Promotion & Tenure at NYUSoM

  3. The Oath To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents

  4. To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents [faculty mentor] and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine,

  5. To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents [faculty mentor] and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine [socialist origin of the depressed salaries of faculty], and to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers in male lineage

  6. To hold him who has taught me this art [faculty mentor] as equal to my parents and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine [socialist origin of the depressed salaries of tenure], and to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers in male lineage [origin of gender discrimination] and to teach this art…to my sons and to the sons of him who has instructed me and to pupils who have signed the covenant and have taken an oath according to the medical law, but no one else.

  7. To hold him who has taught me this art [faculty mentor] as equal to my parents and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine [socialist origin of the depressed salaries of tenure], and to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers in male lineage [origin of gender discrimination] and to teach this art…to my sons and to the sons of him who has instructed me and to pupils who have signed the covenant and have taken an oath according to the medical law, but no one else [origin of both the Guild and the Guilt of our separation from the proles]

  8. Origins of Tenure Professors” durante vita Lehrfrieheit Morrill Act: assistant, associate, professor David Starr Jordan fires Edward A. Ross AAUP

  9. Tenure Defined • [AAUP] Tenure is a means to certain ends; specifically (1) freedom of teaching and research and of extramural activities; and (2) a sufficient degree of economic security to make the profession of teaching attractive to men and women of ability. • [NYUFH] Academic tenure is a means to certain ends, specifically: (1) freedom of teaching and research*; and (2) a sufficient degree of economic security to make the profession of teaching attractive to men and women of ability.

  10. Social Engineering: ADEA • Tenure concepts were developed when the expectation and the rule was “retirement” at 65 • Age Discrimination in Employment Amendmentsof 1986 , *1992

  11. AAMC data on age distribution of faculty in US medical schools 1980-2002

  12. National Context • Decline in reimbursements to the clinical side of academic medical centers • BBA of ’97 • Managed care

  13. National Context • Dramatic rise in the number of faculty, especially clinical faculty • (1) Movement to non-tenure tracks(2) Financial definition

  14. Jones and Gold Academic Medicine (2001) 76: 993-1004

  15. Financial Guarantee of Tenure ‘97 Nb= 102Nc=94 Jones and Gold, Acad Med 1998

  16. What is that Guarantee? Nb= 102Nc=94 Jones and Gold, Acad Med 1998

  17. Part I • Tenure considered in the national context • Part II • Appointment, Promotion & Tenure at NYUSoM

  18. Primary Themes • Investigator / Educator Track, a full-time tenure track for those faculty members in any department whose primary career is in independent, investigator-initiated research and who devote some time to education and service. • Investigator Clinician / Educator Track, a full-time tenure track…for those faculty in the clinical departments whose primary career combines independent research with clinical activities and who devote some time to education and service.

  19. What does it take? • Advance the field • Peer recognition • If you haven’t done it all, you have to be really outstanding in part of it Scholarship

  20. Alternate Pathway • Teaching • Excellence in the “classroom” • Invention of new approaches • Peer recognition for pedagogical activities

  21. Primary Themes • Clinician Investigator / Educator Track, a full-time non-tenure track for those faculty members in clinical departments whose primary career is in the provision of clinical care and who devote a substantial portion of their efforts to teaching, research, and service. • Research / Educator Track, a full-time non-tenure track for those faculty members in any department whose primary career is in research, but who devote a portion of their efforts to education and service.

  22. Alternate Pathway • Teaching • Excellence in the “classroom” • Invention of new approaches • Peer recognition for pedagogical activities

  23. Primary Themes • Clinical Track, a part-time non-tenure track for those faculty members in clinical departments whose primary career is in the provision of clinical care and who devote some time to teaching, research and/or service. • Research Track, a part-time non-tenure track for those faculty involved in part-time or time-limited research in other's laboratories and who devote limited time to teaching and service.

  24. Three Eras of Promotion 42 moved off and 6 moved on the tenure track • October 1989 – December 1994 • January 1995 – May 2002 • June 2002 – June 2004

  25. Characteristics of Candidates

  26. Basic Sciences

  27. Clinical Sciences

  28. AppendixHistory of Tenure

  29. Timeline of Tenure

  30. 1600-1700+ Model of Oxford & Cambridge: tutors Timeline of Tenure

  31. 1600-1700+ Model of Oxford & Cambridge: tutors 1750 Educational-industrial complex:Gifts of endowed chairs and “Professors”durante vita Timeline of Tenure

  32. 1600-1700+ Model of Oxford & Cambridge: tutors 1750 Educational-industrial complex:Gifts of endowed chairs and “Professors”durante vita Transition to non-sectarian educationlehrfreiheitresearch university is born 1800s Timeline of Tenure

  33. 1600-1700+ Model of Oxford & Cambridge: tutors 1750 Educational-industrial complex:Gifts of endowed chairs and “Professors”durante vita Transition to non-sectarian educationlehrfreiheitresearch university is born 1800s 1862 Morrill Act: assistant, associate and full professor Timeline of Tenure

  34. 1600-1700+ Model of Oxford & Cambridge: tutors 1750 Educational-industrial complex:Gifts of endowed chairs and “Professors”durante vita Transition to non-sectarian educationlehrfreiheitresearch university is born 1800s 1862 Morrill Act: Assistant, associate and full professor Timeline of Tenure

  35. 1600-1700+ Model of Oxford & Cambridge: tutors 1750 Educational-industrial complex:Gifts of endowed chairs and “Professors”durante vita Transition to non-sectarian educationlehrfreiheitresearch university is born 1800s 1862 Morrill Act: Assistant, associate and full professor 1900 The Economics Cases:David Starr Jordan fires Edward A. Ross Timeline of Tenure

  36. 1600-1700+ Model of Oxford & Cambridge: tutors 1750 Educational-industrial complex:Gifts of endowed chairs and “Professors”durante vita Transition to non-sectarian educationlehrfreiheitresearch university is born 1800s 1862 Morrill Act: Assistant, associate and full professor 1900 The Economics Cases:David Starr Jordan fires Edward A. Ross 1913-1940 AAUP Timeline of Tenure

  37. 1600-1700+ Model of Oxford & Cambridge: tutors 1750 Educational-industrial complex:Gifts of endowed chairs and “Professors”durante vita Transition to non-sectarian educationlehrfreiheitresearch university is born 1800s 1862 Morrill Act: Assistant, associate and full professor 1900 The Economics Cases:David Starr Jordan fires Edward A. Ross 1913-1940 1986, 1992 AAUP Age Discrimination in Employment Amendments Timeline of Tenure

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