Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Andrea E. Surovek, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Andrea Lyn Liebl, University of South Dakota; Alyssa M. Kiesow, Northern State University; Mary Emery; Pam F. Rowland; Cynthia Anderson

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

stop the clock concerned thatrequesting a tenure extension will have negative consequences, such as department promotionand tenure committees, external reviewers, and/or administrators viewing it as a reflection on theemployee’s work ethic stigmatizing them and hurting their chances at tenure. One approach toremove the stigma, aid in retention of good new faculty, and improve the odds of gaining tenureis to make the policy automatic. Indeed, in 2003, only 27% of women and 18% of men eligibleto stop the clock under elective policies did so, as reported in [22].Most early discussions of tenure clock stoppage were based on childbirth as an issue. However,it is clear that there are a number of other events, affecting both men and women, which