Trying to make things happen - IT Director Denmark Technical College Employee Review

An associate professor is a mid-level professor in a tenure-track position in between an assistant and full professorship

An assistant professor becomes an associate professor when they achieve tenure, which is usually five to seven years into employment with a demonstration of exceptional teaching or research skills.

1. Lots of incredibly amazing people to work with, ie co-workers from other departments, ie Physical Plant (Facilities), Public Safety, HR, Communications, Finance. 2. Also great potential to be within the ranks of higher-prestigious colleges, per their community-involvements, institutions/organizations + companies partnerships (both private and public sector). They're also unique in that they're classified as both Technical College and HBCU (aka funding/grants... where all that money goes, is a separate question... makes you wonder) 3. Never boring, many challenges (technologically I was able to implement many improvements towards "catching them up to the 21st century" (198 Platforms + 112 Projects, just-on-my-watch, to be exact)

Unrealistic expectations from leadership; be prepared for, in spite of a fancy title, you will be treated as an average Tier I worker-bee, including nights, weekends ("supporting their events"), insult-to-your-intelligence trivial/miniscule tasks (might as well be a human "remote control") in addition to 28x the average-productivity rate (real number, as Director of Information Technology, I've reported on performance-metrics).