Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
How to Get Tenure
Michael S. Harris · 2018
75/100
👍 Worth It
A Routledge 2018 guide that addresses a genuinely under-served need — pre-tenure faculty get very little plain-spoken help navigating research, teaching, and service expectations. The author has lived it, the research grounding is real, and the endorsement from a respected name in faculty development (James M. Lang) means something. Zero utility outside academia, but inside it, this earns its place.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety88
Substance / usefulness72
Craft & writing78
Originality58
Evidence & accuracy80
Hype vs delivers68
Age-fit82
👁 Human-eye gut-check74
Penny’s verdict75
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