Pandemic-Related Tenure Timeline Extensions in Higher Education in the United States: Prevalence and Associated Characteristics

Challenges Pub Date : 2022-07-28 DOI:10.3390/challe13020034
R. Krukowski, Loneke T. Blackman Carr, D. Arigo
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Many universities implemented pandemic-related tenure timeline extensions in response to productivity disruptions. However, little is known about the availability, nature, or uptake of these extensions, including which faculty were most likely to extend their timeline. Tenure-track faculty in the United States (n = 385, 64.4% women, 35.3% identifying with a National Institutes of Health-designated racial/ethnic minority group, 73.0% with children, 33.8% with non-child caregiving) completed a survey about their personal/career/institution characteristics, their institution’s pandemic extension policy (if any), and whether they extended their timeline. Overall, 94.0% reported that their institutions provided either an extension, unless faculty opted out, or an extension that could be requested. Most respondents (60.0%) elected to extend their tenure timeline due to the pandemic. Significantly greater proportions of respondents taking an extension were men (77.2%), identified with a NIH-designated racial/ethnic minority group (75.7%), reported non-child caregiving (86.3%), and had previously taken at least one timeline extension (82.4%). Pandemic-related extensions in tenure and promotion dossiers will be common, though they may not fully account for more than a year of disruption and may exacerbate disparities. Consequently, effective preparation for evaluating dossiers and other mitigation strategies are needed, to prevent the loss of faculty members who offer great value to their institutions.
美国高等教育中与流行病相关的任期时间延长:流行程度和相关特征
许多大学实施了与大流行相关的任期延长措施,以应对生产力中断。然而,关于这些延长的可用性、性质或吸收,包括哪些教员最有可能延长他们的时间表,我们知之甚少。美国终身教职员工(n = 385, 64.4%为女性,35.3%为国家卫生研究院指定的种族/少数民族群体,73.0%为儿童,33.8%为非儿童看护)完成了一项关于其个人/职业/机构特征、其机构的流行病延长政策(如果有的话)以及他们是否延长了时间表的调查。总体而言,94.0%的受访者表示,除非教师选择退出,否则他们所在的院校要么提供延期,要么提供可以要求的延期。大多数答复者(60.0%)由于大流行选择延长任期时间表。接受延长的受访者比例明显更高的是男性(77.2%),被认定为美国国立卫生研究院指定的种族/民族少数群体(75.7%),报告非儿童看护(86.3%),并且以前至少接受过一次时间延长(82.4%)。与大流行病有关的任期延长和晋升档案将很常见,尽管它们可能无法完全解释一年多的中断,并可能加剧差距。因此,需要为评估档案和其他缓解策略进行有效准备,以防止对其机构提供巨大价值的教职员工的流失。
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