How to become a professor?

Packers1
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:30:09 +0000

Once you get hired you then need to make sure to play all of the departmental politics so that the tenure committee will approve you when they meet. And continue to publish and make sure that you land a couple of good sized grant proposals for the university (even more important than publishing!).
I have 3 close relatives that are tenured professors and they describe making tenure as extremely grueling. The politics of the approval process were world class from what I’ve been told. Just being brilliant isn’t enough.