%0 Journal Article %J Innovative Higher Education %D 2021 %T Clear as Mud: Promotion Clarity by Gender and BIPOC Status Across the Associate Professor Lifespan %A Amanda M. Kulp %A Amanda Blakewood Pascale %A Wolf-Wendel, Lisa %X Mid-career faculty members often seek to advance to the highest faculty rank of full professor, but research suggests women and Black, Indigenous and Other People of Color (BIPOC) faculty face inequitable patterns in advancement to the full professor rank. This study focuses on associate professors’ perceptions of promotion clarity, or the degree to which they are clear about the processes and criteria for advancing to the full professor rank. %B Innovative Higher Education %G eng %U https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10755-021-09565-7