Tenure Track Process
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Joi Patterson, PhDVPAA/COO
Tenure Track Process
Tenure• Tenure Defined• What does it mean to have academic Freedom• You must have a terminal degree and classified as an assistant professor to
be considered for Tenure Track• Tenure Track is optional
Timeline• Year 1:
– Concentrate on Teaching• Year 2:
– Refine Teaching, add Service,– Submit Self Evaluation
• Year 3– Continue to refine Teaching and Service– Add Scholarship– Submit Self Evaluation
• Year 4– Continue to Teach, Serve the institution and the
community and actively engage in scholarly activities– Submit Self Evaluation
Timeline• Year 5
– Establish best practices in Teaching, refine your Philosophy, actively engage in trademark Service and actively engage in Scholarly activity
– Prep for tenure application• Year 6
– Continue to model best practices in Teaching, actively engage yourself and your students in trademark Service, and actively engage yourself and students in scholarly/research activities
– Submit Rank and Tenure Application
Disclaimer
• This exercise provides a general guideline, tips and highlights of the Tenure Process. It does not strictly adhere or align to the Faculty Handbook. Please refer to the Faculty Handbook for further details.
Criteria for Tenure• Faculty member must demonstrate competence and promise of long
term usefulness to the mission programs of Calumet College of St. Joseph
Application Process• Traditional Model or• Boyer Model effective 2010• Annual Self Evaluations
– Due 9/1 to Program Director– Due 9/15 to Department Chair– Due 10/15 to Vice President of Academic Affairs
Application Process for Rank and Tenure
• Rank from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor• Year 6 Apply for Rank from Assistant Professor to Associate
Professor• Rank from Associate Professor to Full Professor
– After year 10 Eligible to apply for Full Professor
Timelines for Rank and Tenure
• Must Seek approval between each level• 9/1 to Department Chair• 10/1 to Rank and Tenure
– Receive letter from committee• 11/15 To Vice President of Academic Affairs
– Receive letter from VPAA• 12/15 To President
– Receive letter from President by 1/15• 1/15 To Board of Trustees
– Final Approval in March Board Meeting– Reflected in Board minutes and announced in April Senate Meeting
What Happens if You Don’t Get Tenure????
• Up or Or Process• 1 year contract for Year 7• Program not viable • Appeal Process to Tenure Judiciary Committee
Collection Process• Portable Portfolio Box
– Teaching – Service– Scholarship
• Same process for electronic files
Type of Mediums• Hard Copy applications• Electronic applications via email• Electronic application via CD, which could include videos• Website application, which could include videos
Application Content• Annual Self Evaluation
– Reflective of one year at a time, does not build• Rank and Tenure Application
– Reflective of 5 years of teaching, service and scholarship
Self Evaluation Content• Curriculum Vitae• Teaching Philosophy• Teaching
– Courses that you teach– Aggregate data of course evaluations i.e. excel– Highlights of comments – Best Practices that you use– Observations (evaluations of your teaching)
Service• Committee that you serve on
– Rule of thumb – 2 committees– Leadership role in 1
• Service to the College– Open House– Club Sponsor– Marketing Committee Meetings– Enrollment Management Meetings– Service to Community
• Board• Membership• Consortiums
Scholarship• Traditional
– Research– Publication of peer reviewed/refereed journals within your dicipline– http://wikipedia.org/wicki/Peer – Publications of non-fictional books within your discipline– Presentations at the state and national level– Grants– Handbooks
Scholarship• Boyer Model of Discovery
– Same as Above– Creative Works within your discipline– Artwork– Music– Dance– Poetry– Entrepreneurship
How to Maximize Your Chances of Tenure
• Make your accomplishments visible, quantifiable, locally and nationally• Perform consistently and improve• Establish independence but balance with collegiality• Find a niche, make a name for yourself in a discipline• Understand the process• Identify with your scholarly area• Make it a easy for the reviewers• Present a professional product (take pride in your work)
Maximize Your Success as a Professor
• Work with your chair to align your goals with the department and institutions goals
• Set short and long term goals• Get tenured mentor and work with them• Join a scholarly group with overlapping interest• Share ideas, collaborate on projects• Solicit feedback of your scholarship • Stay focused be determined• Get and give feedback
Resources• Department Chair• Vice President of Academic Affairs• Library- Sample Applications and Exhibits• Boyer Scholarship Reconsidered• Portable Portfolio Box
Next Topics of Interest• Publication of journals and books• National Presentations• Packaging your application• U-Tube• CD and Hyperlinks• Website