2005 Annual Faculty Development Seminar Appointment, Promotion and Tenure In the Professorial Ranks

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2005 AnnualFaculty Development
SeminarAppointment, Promotion and TenureIn the
Professorial Ranks
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• Part I
• Academic Ranks Tenure in the national context
• Part II
• Appointment, Promotion Tenure at NYUSoM

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The Oath
To hold him who has taught me this art as equal
to my parents
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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,
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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
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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 artto 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.
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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 artto 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
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Origins of Tenure

• Professors durante vita
• Lehrfrieheit
• Morrill Act assistant, associate, professor
• David Starr Jordan fires Edward A. Ross
• AAUP

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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.

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Social Engineering ADEA

• Tenure concepts were developed when the
  expectation and the rule was retirement at 65
• Age Discrimination in Employment Amendmentsof
  1986 , 1992

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AAMC data on age distribution of faculty in US
medical schools 1980-2002
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National Context

• Decline in reimbursements to the clinical side
  of academic medical centers
• BBA of 97
• Managed care

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National Context

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

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Jones and Gold Academic Medicine (2001) 76
993-1004
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Financial Guarantee of Tenure 97
Nb 102Nc94
Jones and Gold, Acad Med 1998
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What is that Guarantee?
Nb 102Nc94
Jones and Gold, Acad Med 1998
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• Part I
• Tenure considered in the national context
• Part II
• Appointment, Promotion Tenure at NYUSoM

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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 trackfor those faculty in the
  clinical departments whose primary career
  combines independent research with clinical
  activities and who devote some time to education
  and service.

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What does it take?

• Advance the field
• Peer recognition
• If you havent done it all, you have to be really
  outstanding in part of it
• Scholarship

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Alternate Pathway

• Teaching
• Excellence in the classroom
• Invention of new approaches
• Peer recognition for pedagogical activities

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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.

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Alternate Pathway

• Teaching
• Excellence in the classroom
• Invention of new approaches
• Peer recognition for pedagogical activities

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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.

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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

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Characteristics of Candidates
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Basic Sciences
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Clinical Sciences
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AppendixHistory of Tenure
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Timeline of Tenure
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