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When you are a junior faculty member, a major goal is to be promoted to tenure, which usually (but certainly not always) comes with promotion to associate professor. Eventually, you probably will want to be promoted to full professor. I say “probably” because sometimes associate professors with tenure decide not to seek promotion to full professor, either because they have not been sufficiently productive or because they do not want to go through another major evaluation process. Some factors regarding promotion to tenure are controllable; others are not. I consider both types of factors in this chapter. Some of the suggestions will elaborate on suggestions made earlier in the book. These are the suggestions that I believe are particularly important when it comes time for tenure or promotion. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)