This lively account provides guidance to college and university faculty as they plot their course to tenure. Written in journal form by a regular contributor to the Chronicle of Higher Education, Life on the Tenure Track recounts many of Jim Lang's own early struggles in the classroom, at the department meeting, and around the halls of academe. Lang uses wit and anecdote to lighten the burden of a journey that is often lonely and confusing. Engaging and accessible, Life on the Tenure Track will provide insight to administrators, graduate students seeking their first appointments, and junior faculty on their own tenure track.