Your School/Department Operating paper provides tenure and promotion guidelines. You are responsible for following those guidelines. The objectives listed below provide suggestions for specific activities to accomplish your school/departmental guidelines. Although this list has been reviewed by all the directors and chairs, it does not replace school or departmental guidelines. Review the dossier(s) of faculty seeking tenure/promotion this fall to get an idea of the documents you will be working to develop over the next five years.

Excellent teaching is a must! Review your teaching evaluations with your Mentor and Chair and develop a teaching improvement plan to address areas you wish to improve. Demonstrating steady improvement in your teaching evaluations for your tenure/promotion dossier is important. All faculty will be encouraged to integrate multimedia instructional materials, email, writing-across-the-curriculum and/or Internet applications for one course.

_____ Observe your Mentor or a Senior Faculty member teach.

_____ Schedule your Mentor and/or Senior Faculty to observe you teach and
provide written feedback. You will want peer review letters for your
tenure/promotion dossier.

_____ Strive to achieve a mean of 4.0 on the ICE teaching evaluations. Use
ICE evaluations for all your classes. A sample copy is in the Mentoring
Manual. You will need these scores for your tenure/promotion dossier.

_____ Work with your Mentor and Chair to develop a form for students to
write comments addressing important aspects of your teaching that
are not included on the ICE evaluation. Student comments are an
important addition to your tenure/promotion dossier.

_____ Attend at least one on-campus faculty development workshop. Library
Affairs offers a Seminar Series. Check the Library Affairs homepage.

_____ Submit a University Summer Teaching Fellowship to the Associate
Provost, if funds are available. Application materials will be distributed
by your Director or Chair.

 

First Year Research/Creative Activity Objectives:

____ Check with your director/chair and program faculty to develop a list of
journals and other appropriate professional outlets for your research and/or
creative activities.

____ Submit one manuscript, exhibit, drawing, etc. for peer-reviewed
presentation.

____ Submit one manuscript, exhibit, drawing, etc. for peer-reviewed
publication. Recommendations for further research or creative activity in
this manuscript should correspond to next year’s objectives.

____ Attend a L10/14/08s the
professional literature and creative works in your field.

____ Submit a proposal to the ASA Research Committee if funds are available.
Application materials and criteria are in the Mentoring Manual.<1/12/09 a Special Research Application to the Office of Research
Development and Administration for funds to support a research project.
Application materials are in the Mentoring Manual.

 

_____ Review your service commitments with your director/chair at each annual
evaluation meeting.

_____ New faculty should limit service to one school/department committee
and one College Committee. Through this service, you will learn about
the school/department and College and meet other faculty.

_____ Delay service activities outside the College until your second or third
year, and focus on teaching and research.

_____ Keep a list of committee members and addresses. In the future, you may
want to ask these colleagues for a letter acknowledging your contribution.