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Seminar Materials Joseph McRae Mellichamp, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Management Science The Un
iversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Alabama U.S.A.
Presenter Rae Mellichamp
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Overview
Outline

• Understand the Process
• Define the Target
• Establish Your Goals
• Be Accountable
• Things to Do
• Things to Avoid
• Assess Your Motives

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Part 1
Part 1 Understand the Process
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The Process
Part 1
Understand the Process

• Gather relevant materials
• Faculty handbook
• Departmental/College guidelines
• Interview colleagues
• Your dean/department chair
• Senior department members
• Recently tenured professors

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The Process
Part 1
Understand the Process

• Assess the situation
• Clearly stated requirements
• Clearly defined process
• Review committees
• Annual feedback
• Supportive colleagues

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Part 2
Part 2 Define the Target
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The Target
Part 1
Define the Target

• Generic scenarios
• Doctoral Granting Institutions
• Publish or perish
• Acceptable teaching
• Liberal Arts Other Institutions
• Quality teaching
• Some research

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The Target
Part 1
Define the Target
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The Target
Part 1
Define the Target

• An Optimal Strategy
• Service
• Do 1/n of department load
• Do it cheerfully and well
• Teaching
• Strive for excellence
• Dont try to win awards
• Research
• Focus on refereed research
• Develop a balanced portfolio

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What Things Count
Service

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  Point Count
  
• Committees
• Departmental 0
• College 0
• University 0
• Professional Organizations
• Officer 1
• Committees 0
• Journals
• Editor 1
• Advisory/Technical Board 0
• Reviewer 0

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What Things Count
Teaching

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  Point Count
  
• Curriculum Duties
• Curriculum planning 0
• New course development 0
• Development of materials 0
• Advising Duties
• Undergraduate students 0
• Graduate students 0
• Examining Duties
• Preparation and grading of 0
• Masters and Ph.D. exams

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What Things Count
Teaching

• Point
  Count
  
• Teaching Load (Per Semester)
• Research Universities 3-6 Hours 0
• Other Universities/Colleges 9-12 Hours 0

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What Things Count
Research

• Point Count
• Refereed Journal Articles 6-10
• Non-Refereed Journal Articles
• - Second Level Journals 2
• - Trade Publications 0
• Books (Research), Monographs 8
• Conference Proceedings
• - Refereed 3
• - Non-Refereed 1.5
• Conference Presentations .2
• Research Contracts/Grants
• Supervision of Graduate Students .1

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Activity Classification
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Activity Classification
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Activity Classification
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Activity Classification
Publish or perish is a proverb that
academicians take seriously. If you do not
publish your work for the rest of the community
to evaluate, then you have no business in
academia (and if you dont already have tenure,
you will be banished). Michael J. Behe
Professor of Biochemistry Lehigh University
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Activity Classification
Journal articles get you tenure, books get you a
chair. Earl Grinols Professor o
f Economics
University of Illinois
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Part 3
Part 3 Establish Your Goals
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Establish Goals
Life Goals

• Specific
• Written

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Establish Goals
Life Goals
Spiritual Family Relationships Church Ministry

Work/Career Physical Financial
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Establish Goals
Life Goals

• Work/Career
• Research
• - Long Range
• To develop a national/international reputation
  in complex system
  
• design using
• - Digital Simulation Methods
• - Knowledge Based Systems
• To develop long term funding support for
  equipment and RAs
  
• - Short Range
• Refereed journal articles Two per year
• National conference presentations One per
  year
  
• Teaching
• - Long Range
• To develop a university-wide reputation as an
  excellent teacher
  

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Part 3
Part 4 Be Accountable
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Accountability
Be Accountable

• Accountability checklist
• Accountability partner

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Accountability Checklist
Be Accountable
Work/Career 9. Are you achieving your resear
ch and teaching goals? 10. What is your reput
ation within the University?
Nationally?
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Part 3
Part 5 Things to Do
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Acceptable
Things to Do

• Specialize
• - Teaching
• - Research
• Manage
• Organize
• Evaluate
• Develop your dossier
• - Examine recent dossiers
• - Start gathering NOW

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Part 3
Part 6 Things to Avoid
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Unacceptable
Things to Avoid

• Committee work
• Politics
• Administration
• Exploitation

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Part 3
Part 7 Assess Your Motives
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Motives?
Assess Your Motives

• Tenure Your be all, end all goal?
• or
• Tenure Mark of integrated excellence?

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Motives