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Faculty Agency In Applying For Promotion To Professor, Amy Blackstone, Susan K. Gardner
Faculty Agency In Applying For Promotion To Professor, Amy Blackstone, Susan K. Gardner
Sociology School Faculty Scholarship
- Aim/Purpose: In the United States, faculty who wish to pursue promotion to the rank of professor do so without clear guidance or structure. Even the timing of such a process is nebulous. As such, an individual engages in magentic action to pursue the rank.
- Background: This study examined the experiences of faculty members who chose to pursue the application process to be promoted to professor but were rejected or dissuaded.
- Methodology: Utilizing a case study of one institutional setting, we conducted 10 in-depth qualitative interviews.
- Contribution: Very little is known about the process of promotion to full professor in the …