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Two-Body Solution. Share X. For the rest of the year, I felt like I had a dirty little secret that was impacting my behavior and motivation in subtle ways, but which I was too embarrassed to share. If I had received one more large grant, I almost certainly would have been awarded tenure. Given the arbitrariness of the funding process and that I came very close to winning multiple additional grants, it is maddening that this played such a major role in a decision that affects the rest of my life.
Also, I poured my heart into making OSU the best place to work, teach, and learn. This is reflected in my work for the faculty union, additional outreach to students, and the significant effort I invested in teaching and all of my service obligations.
None of this work was valued by the university at all. I underestimated how much coming back would negatively affect my research career despite accurate warnings from some senior colleagues in my research community. When you change institutions, you get a whole new set of people to collaborate with. Instead, I had only one other researcher in my area my former advisor whom I was recommended against collaborating with.
Despite mostly not collaborating with him, 2 my supposed lack of independence was a factor in being denied tenure. Ultimately, I gave 13 years of my life to OSU and made career sacrifices to be there. I loved OSU and was proud to work there despite its occasional shortcomings which I was trying to help address through our faculty union. Now I feel a profound resentment towards OSU for not valuing my contributions and rejecting me. There are two reasons tenure denial is rare: First, tenure-track positions are extremely competitive.
There are dozens to literally hundreds of applicants to each open tenure-track position. Note: Sometimes people go up for tenure early before the specified date in your contract. I don't know what the standards are for consequences of not getting tenure then--when I've seen people go up early, they got tenure.
At most institutions whose procedures I'm aware of, you only get one chance at a tenure application at a given university. If you are not granted tenure, there are usually provisions for how long you can stay—usually until the expiration of your existing contract, which typically amounts to until the end of the academic year following the denial of tenure.
Following that, you have to move somewhere else, whether it's an academic position at another institution or a position outside of academia. Here is how it works at my US institution. I know that some other US institutions have similar systems, and my impression is that this is in fact typical in the US. When hired as an Assistant Professor, the job offer includes a mandatory date for latest possible tenure consideration, normally in the sixth year of the position.
Ninth year for clinical faculty in professional schools. An Assistant Professor can apply for tenure and promotion in any year before that; if they are unsuccessful they can remain in the position and apply for tenure again, up until that latest possible date.
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