Tenuous Time Toward Tenure at Teaching Institutions: Realities and Resources

Using a critical ethnography approach, this manuscript seeks to explore and analyze the authors' experiences at their institutions when they began their tenure-track journey at their teaching institutions. This manuscript seeks to provide specific strategies that tenure-track faculty trained at...

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Published inSchole : a journal of leisure studies and recreation education Vol. 37; no. 1-2; pp. 55 - 69
Main Authors Hallmon, Augustus W., Hicks, Jonathan, Robinett, Jeremy
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 04.05.2022
Subjects
College Faculty
contemporary student
Faculty Development
Graduate Study
Research Universities
subject classification
Teacher Background
Teacher Education
Teaching philosophy
Tenure
Undergraduate Study
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Summary:Using a critical ethnography approach, this manuscript seeks to explore and analyze the authors' experiences at their institutions when they began their tenure-track journey at their teaching institutions. This manuscript seeks to provide specific strategies that tenure-track faculty trained at research intensive universities have used to negotiate the requirements of teaching, scholarship, and service at undergraduate and master's-granting institutions. Initially, we suggested four themes were salient in our experiences: Contracts and criteria; access to resources; interacting with students; and the importance of finding balance. After our discussion at the TALS 2020 conference, two themes emerged as being important to the audience: interactions with students and finding balance. With the experiences from this research, it can inform practices for academic institutional practices and preparation of doctoral students, with a research-intensive background, to enter academia at a teaching-focused institution. As well, it provides future recommendations for continued research in this area.
ISSN:1937-156X
2162-4097
DOI:10.1080/1937156X.2021.1923380