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- Discuss the impact of resources and resource allocation (including office and lab space) on the careers of young faculty. Identify positive and negative aspects of resource availability and constraints.
- Discuss the feedback provided by the chair in annual reviews. Consider: validity, pertinence, impact.
- With regard to mentoring, do young faculty need mentors? When? Who? How? Why? What kind? What kind of variation can you envision in both the receptivity of mentoring and guidance offered?
- With regard to collaboration, identify the advantages and disadvantages to collaborating. In particular, address difficulties related to the assessment of collaboration at the time of tenure and promotion. What alternative approaches to evaluating collaboration might be appropriate?
- Graduate students: Identify means of measuring impact on graduate students. Consider number, retention, quality, graduation rate, post-graduate success, satisfaction and appropriate mechanisms measuring these.
- What would you like to see in Perez's record (including letters) that would help you decide on tenure and promotion?
- How did assumptions about Perez's ethnicity influence your reading of his case? Assume that Perez is of Hispanic origin. How could minority status have affected the evolution of his education and of his career? Identify positive and negative aspects.
- How might Perez's minority status have affected the tenure and promotion committee and the chair's evaluation of his case. Identify positive and negative aspects