Connections Review

The Quarterly ACI Courier

Issue #12, Fall 2015

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In This Issue

This quarter we look forward to supplying you with valuable resources. To begin with, we are publishing our first installment of an interview series with Christian faculty. This particular series will involve interviewing three professors who have already achieved tenure and subsequently reached full professor status at their schools. The question we want to ask is, "What can be learned from their experiences, now that they have reached full professorship?"

Below that you can access our regular departments like Café Cook, Updates and Upgrades, and our own Court Watch. In the Café Cook section below you can access a recent discussion on free speech rights and more. In the Updates and Upgrades section you can access our free updated resources that are posted online for your convenience. In the Court Watch section you can catch up with legal issues that could very well affect you and your journey in academe--significantly updated for this installment. Be sure to check them all out each edition.

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Front Page

We begin this issue with our first of three interviews on the topic of "gaining full professorship." This first installment is an interview with Dr. Scott Bryant of Montana State University.

Dr. Bryant received his Ph.D. in management, with an emphasis in strategy and entrepreneurship, from the University of Oregon in 2002. He has a BA (1990) and an MBA (1998) from Seattle Pacific University. He is currently a professor of management at Montana State University and also serves as the Executive Director in the Jake Jabs College of Business & Entrepreneurship (JJCBE).

This interview was conducted by ACI using FaceTime and this edited transcript was produced from the conversation:

ACI: Did you have your eyes on that “prize” of becoming a full-professor when you started as an assistant professor?

Dr. Scott Bryant: You know I think my best answer to that is, yes and no (laugh). I wasn’t really thinking about becoming a full professor as much as I was pretty focused on getting tenure and promotion to associate professor—that was my immediate goal. But I realized that being a motivated person who likes to continue to achieve I think I had it in the back of my mind that I would like to become a full professor. So when I started the process I don’t think so, but part of me was just working my way up the ladder.

ACI: What are some lessons you think you might have learned along the way through this process?

SB: I think the first lesson I learned is that becoming a full professor is really more about desiring to be a leader in the college and willing to be more of a servant to your colleagues. I think the tenure hurdle is already over, so it’s totally optional and I needed a good reason to pursue it. And…I needed to examine my own motives as to why—merely for the title of full professor or other reasons—and it took me a...

USE THIS LINK TO READ THE FULL INTERVIEW

We trust you will enjoy this issue! See regular departments below.

Best regards,
James A. Cook
Editor, Connections Review
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Café Cook

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UPDATES AND UPGRADES

to our (FREE) on-line resources, designed for Christian faculty...updates include resources for faith and scholarship, mentoring and conversational apologetics.

ACI's COURT WATCH

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