2023-2024 Mid-Career Faculty Consortium Task Force

Charge

• Understand the opportunities and challenges faced by newly tenured faculty at a diverse group of colleges and universities. Propose an annual consortium that would provide guidance to newly tenured faculty on the tenure transition and long-term career planning to the AAA Board of Directors and Management Team.

Core Principles

As faculty transition from the role of assistant professor to tenured faculty member, they frequently encounter requests for departmental, college and university service, invitations to serve on editorial boards, and new teaching and research opportunities. In addition, being tenured affords faculty members a greater degree of academic freedom, and they often take on different roles in their coauthor teams. While the American Accounting Association (AAA) offers many resources to support doctoral students and new faculty, there is an opportunity to support newly promoted and tenured faculty.

The Task Force should consider:

• the opportunities often presented to newly tenured faculty;
• the challenges often faced by newly tenured faculty;
• which topics would be most helpful in a consortium for newly tenured faculty (e.g., long-term career planning, effective ways to say ‘no’ to requests that are not in alignment with career goals, etc.); 
• whether any existing university or national programs inform a AAA consortium;
• the costs associated with creating a consortium, including whether a firm would be willing to sponsor the consortium; and
• the structure, roles and responsibilities of a Mid-Career Faculty Consortium Committee. 

Membership

• New Task Force members are appointed prior to the Annual Meeting by the AAA Management Team.
• The Task Force size varies according to its projects and purposes.
• To the extent possible, members should be tenured and at a variety of different types of institutions (e.g., public and private; small and large) and should have diverse research and teaching interests. 

Meetings

• Meetings of the Task Force may be scheduled at the discretion of the Co-Chairs, and can be online, as appropriate. 

Responsibilities

• To fulfill the Task Force charge as above.
• If the Chair has any questions about the charge or responsibilities of this committee, s/he should contact the Chief Executive Officer or the President.
• As the Task Force progresses with its charge, it must deliver interim reports on its work and recommendations at least once per fiscal year. Each report should be sent to the AAA President and the AAA Governance Manager, Barbara Gutierrez (barbara.gutierrez@aaahq.org).
• If the Chairs have any questions about the charge or responsibilities of this Task Force, they should contact the AAA Chief Executive Officer or AAA President.

Members