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Scholarly writing is a SNAP for Alabama junior faculty.(Support Network for Assistant/Associate Professors)
What do junior faculty and the contestants in the television show Survivor have in common? Both have a serious risk of getting "voted off the island."
Think the comparison between academe and reality TV is overstated? Consider tenure, in which there's a deadline to meet, specific activities to accomplish while the clock ticks and where part of the process is referred to as "publish or perish." And like the reality show, the tenure committee votes yea or nay on the young scholar.
But at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, junior professors in the School of Education can join in a program that not only encourages them to succeed but assists with one of the main hurdles, scholarly research and writing.
The Support Network for Assistant/Associate Professors (SNAP) is an example of necessity becoming the mother of invention. Faced with a group of like-minded colleagues wanting to constructively commiserate about the tenure process and lacking a formal mentoring process in the School of Education, three non-tenured UAB faculty developed the program in 2007. They were Dr. Nataliya Ivankova, Dr, Linda Searby and Dr. Melanie Shores.
The peer mentoring program was intended to reduce the isolation common to new faculty, share information about scholarly writing, offer suggestions and collaborate on joint authorship.
Ivankova, who came to Alabama as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor of educational psychology and research in the department of human studies, has yet to gain tenure.
To her, the issue is personal. "I thought I could help the group," she said, noting her background in research methods and research writing. Ivankova discussed SNAP at the University of Nebraska's Women in Educational Leadership conference held in Lincoln in October.
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