What Does It Mean to Be Post-Tenure? Mapping the Years After

Richmond Room in the HDC, 12:00-1:00 pm, Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Lunch is included for registrants

Tenure marks an important professional milestone, but it can also open a new phase of intellectual and professional possibility. What does it mean to inhabit the post-tenure years in ways that feel purposeful and sustainable? How do priorities, pressures, and possibilities shift across different seasons of academic life? What shifts, or remains steady, in research, teaching, service, and sense of contribution? And how do faculty think about promotion to full professor alongside other meaningful ways of shaping a career?

This conversation brings together faculty at different post-tenure stages to reflect on questions such as:

How research agendas evolve over time
How to sustain intellectual curiosity and scholarly engagement
The changing role of service, leadership, and mentorship
Approaches to promotion to full professor and other forms of contribution
How to recognize impact and growth when they may not be linear

This session invites an open and practical conversation about recalibrating priorities, sustaining meaningful work, and imagining the many ways academic lives can continue to evolve after tenure.

What Does It Mean to Be Post-Tenure? Mapping the Years After...