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A job classification for faculty jobs, indicating that someone is eligible for a permanent position ("tenure") should he or she meet certain expectations by the time of the evaluation ("tenure review").

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Tenure Track at a Small Liberal Arts College, but bad at research, how do I improve?

A few suggestions: You've mentioned that you have ideas for research problems to tackle, but not for how to approach them. Can you make a list of the problem-solving techniques you've used successful …
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Breaking into research oriented tenure-track positions from teaching track

As an alternative to your strategies 1 through 4, I remember reading the book A PhD Is Not Enough, which had the suggestion of working at a governmental research lab (like the US Department of Energy' …
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Do university departments take on additional faculty members for existing lab groups?

When you say "lab group," are you thinking of physical lab space with expensive equipment? A university would probably rather not dedicate the space to having 2 copies of e.g. a very large & expensive …
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Should I make room in the my cover letter for a service paragraph or can the CV take care of...

It's not generally necessary to include a paragraph about service in the cover letter. If the applicant doesn't have much to say about it, there's no need to waste space writing "I've sat on a committ …
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