Tenure and Promotion Workshop

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Tenure and Promotion Workshop

• Make the process work for you from the start.
• Remember Baden Powell Be prepared

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Instructors right to grieve

• 12.3 is not currently listed among the exemptions
  from the Grievance procedure, though the employer
  has proposed adding it, along with 11.3
  (librarian confirmation) and 12.4 (transfer of
  instructor to professorial rank) to the list of
  exempted articles.

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Tenure Professorial ranksCollective Agreement
Articles
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Appendix A in a nutshell
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Promotion Process

• Department promotion committee September 30
• Dean to inform chair of those automatically to be
  considered
• Committee recommendationagainst requires written
  notice to member
• Candidate can submit additional information
  references
• Dean creates promotion committee (Dean and 8
  other members) December 15
• Dean advises member in writing of decision of
  faculty committee
• University Promotions Committee VP chair and 7
  members chosen by President, 7 elected by Senate
  in rank of full professor.
• PAC can receive any new information, PAC can
  refer matter back to UPC or can recommend a de
  novo consideration before a differently
  constituted UPC to be determined by the PAC.
• UPC recommends to the President, informs
  candidate in writing before May1. Reasons for
  decision must be given. (Note the candidate
  cannot present new information to the UPC)
• Appellant has 15 days after receipt of President
  notice to appeal

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Promotion to Associate Criteria

• The opening paragraph indicates that the member
  must have established the effectiveness of
  teaching, adding in the same sentence maturity
  of scholarship, professional achievement and
  contribution to department or school.
• The next question is how should these criteria be
  evaluated?
• Teaching requires a variety of means primarily
  peer evaluation and student evaluation.
  Accordingly, if there are questions about student
  evaluations, it might be useful to ensure peer
  evaluation of your teaching. Also use the
  services of EDC.
• Scholarship is judged based on the quality of
  published work, not just quantity. The text
  recognizes that there are groups where
  publication is not likely, and for such groups,
  evidence of scholarly activity and promise will
  depend primarily upon the evaluation of peers.
• Professional achievement and the university also
  need to be established.
• The document affirms, Effective teaching should
  be the first requirement for all candidates for
  promotion to Associate Professor. Scholarship
  should rank equally with teaching or nearly so
  for group 2, 3, and 4. Professional achievement
  can replace scholarship for group 4.

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Promotion to Professor Criteria

• Intellectual maturity, outside recognition,
  recognized authority, significant contribution to
  scholarship or to profession and the university.
  Effective teaching, but less important than
  promotion to Associate. Promotion to full
  requires a greater conformity to a norm in
  which scholarship would be of paramount
  importance.

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Tenure and Social Relations
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Dean Ducks in Row

• Discuss your decision to go forward for tenure or
  promotion with your chair or director.
• .Discuss the decision to go forward with your
  Dean... face to face. Get a clear idea of
  whether or not the Dean will be enthusiastic or
  lukewarm in their support.
• To repeat Build positive working relations with
  the other members of your department.

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Prepare a Road Map

• Prepare a thorough and well thought out dossier.
  Write a three to four page letter introducing
  your dossier and walking people through your
  accomplishments.
• .avoid whining or excuses for inadequacies
• .frame activities which are non-conventional as
  strengths
• write with confidence
• be accurate, and truthful do not exaggerate.

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Your research program

• In your letter, particularly for promotion to
  Associate, it is important to demonstrate that
  you have established an independent research
  program apart from work on your PhD, and
  certainly apart from your supervisor.

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Bushels and Barrels

• Provide clear tables of your teaching scores and
  courses.
• .Provide a clear indication of your authorship of
  articles, or co-authorship.
• .Provide a clear indication of research or
  corporate money for projects.
• .If your research output takes a non-conventional
  form, e.g., participation in specialized
  soft-ware working groups and conferences indicate
  that this is so in your covering letter.
• .Particularly for promotion indicate all graduate
  student supervisions, external examinations,
  participation in PhD, etc. If your unit does not
  have a graduate program indicate other ways you
  have participated in graduate education and
  development. Also explore cross-appointments and
  collaboration with other faculty in other units
  before coming up for promotion or tenure.
• .The bottom line is that all of you work very
  hard at your jobs. Most of what we do is not
  visible to our colleagues. The opportunity to go
  forward for tenure and promotion gives you a
  chance to let others know what you are doing with
  your work days and work nights.