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Gaining tenure for a professor is like making partner for a lawyer. Until is it secured, tenure almost entirely becomes the filter through which all teaching, research, publishing and service is viewed and handled.

Since the mid-1990s, Dr. Joseph M. Mellichamp, Emeritus Professor of Management Science at The University of Alabama, has been helping incoming (and other) professors by outlining strategies and tactics for faculty seeking tenured positions.

Mellichamp writes, "If you surveyed every professor who did not earn tenure at an American university, you would discover that a large majority, probably in excess of 90 percent, were not disciplined in the area of research. They were not consistently putting in the time and doing the little things which add up to publications and peer recognition."

—What Is a Christian Professor? A Model of Maturity and Ministry, Joseph McRae Mellichamp, Ph.D., Editor

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