Teaching and Scholarship Hub

Tenure is often imagined as a finish line, but it’s really just the beginning of a new phase. What does it mean to be two years post-tenure? Five? Ten? How do priorities, pressures, and possibilities shift over time? What changes in your research, teaching, service, and sense of purpose? And how do you decide whether pursuing promotion to full professor aligns with your goals or whether a different path makes more sense?

This panel brings together faculty at different post-tenure stages to talk honestly about life after tenure. We’ll explore questions like: 

• How do you keep momentum without burning out?
• What does a trajectory even mean once the tenure clock stops?
• How do you decide whether to go up for full or not?
• How do you track your impact and growth over time?
• What gets easier? What gets more complicated?

This is a candid, practical conversation about recalibrating, reimagining, and sometimes reinventing your academic path. Whether you are newly tenured, midstream, or considering your long-term arc, this conversation invites reflection on trajectory, purpose, and possibility beyond tenure.

Lunch is included for registrants.