University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX, USA.
University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR, USA.
Health Promot Pract. 2023 Mar;24(2):218-222. doi: 10.1177/15248399221084225. Epub 2022 Apr 6.
Navigating a tenure-track position can sometimes feel like walking the high wire, teetering from side to side wondering when that next overload course, research paper, or service project will topple you from your scholarly perch. Many of these positions lack significant formalized mentorship and guidance to help navigate and balance the workload of academia. Even with experience, the tenure and promotion process can be ambiguous. Workload balance is imperative to achieve tenure and promotion. Once you are in a tenure-track position, it is important to balance and understand the tenure and promotion process and its value. We provide a roadmap for early career academic professionals on how to balance their teaching, research, and service to obtain tenure and promotion. We inform the next generation of academicians about how researchers address public health problems through teaching, scholarship, and service. Finally, we explore five critical areas relevant to successful tenure and promotion: (a) classification and organizational culture, (b) the "Big Three" (teaching, research, and service), (c) professional development and network, (d) mentorship, and (e) work-life balance.
在终身教职岗位上工作有时感觉就像走钢丝，左右摇晃，不知道下一个过载课程、研究论文或服务项目何时会把你从学术岗位上推翻。许多这样的职位缺乏重要的正式指导，以帮助你应对和平衡学术工作的负担。即使有经验，终身教职和晋升过程也可能是模糊的。工作负荷平衡对于获得终身教职和晋升至关重要。一旦你进入终身教职岗位，平衡和理解终身教职和晋升过程及其价值就很重要。我们为早期职业学术专业人员提供了一份路线图，说明如何平衡教学、研究和服务以获得终身教职和晋升。我们让下一代学者了解研究人员如何通过教学、学术和服务来解决公共卫生问题。最后，我们探讨了与成功获得终身教职和晋升相关的五个关键领域：(a) 分类和组织文化，(b) “三大”（教学、研究和服务），(c) 专业发展和网络，(d) 指导，以及 (e) 工作与生活平衡。
