tenure track process

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