Teachers DO get promoted!

Prof Sandra WillsUniversity of Wollongong

International benchmarking:

recognition of teaching in academic promotion

Australian universities

British universities

Wollongong

Tasmania

Wollongong

Tasmania

Leicester

Newcastle

Leicester

Newcastle

Four partner benchmarkingFrameworks & examplesForums in AUS & UK HEA ReportWebsite

Four partner benchmarkingFrameworks & examplesForums in AUS & UK HEA ReportWebsite

UK Advisory Group

External Evaluator

Australian Advisory Group

Strongest opportunity for enhancing university teaching: when academics believe that they can be promoted for excellence in teaching.

Fellowships and awards not sufficient recognition in themselves unless followed by reward of promotion.

Promotion Applications

Me: 20 years Promotion Committee training12 years on Promotion Committee

You can’t measure teaching!

teachers DO get promoted!

UOW Promotion Stats 2006-2009

Promotion to:

Senior Lecturer Associate Professor

% success % success

Teaching #1 81 78Research #1 95 91

Benchmarking Promotion Stats

UK national report 2009 n=46 universities

Lecturer/Snr Lecturer Reader/Professor32% 17%

UOW Dubai Campus

UOW Wollongong Campus

• 28,000 students - 30% international off-shore and on-shore• Top 200 Times Higher Ed Rankings 2009, 2006 & 2007• #1 for Student Satisfaction Sweeney Research Group 2009 • Top 500 - Shanghai Jiao Tong Index 2006• decade of 5 stars in Good Universities Guide• #1 for 3 years of National Teaching & Learning Performance Fund• # 1 for 4 years of Citations for Outstanding Contribution to

Teaching & Learning• inaugural Commonwealth University of the Year Award for

Community Engagement - The Times Higher Ed & Commonwealth Association of Universities 2006

• University of Year for Research Partnerships 2000• University of Year for Preparing Graduates for e-World 1999

Not sandstone however 60 years old research intensive & international

Institutional Review

ofPromotion

good practice benchmarks

benchmarks

6 dimensions18 benchmarks72 focus

questions

Benchmark 17A transparent cycle of review tracks

recognition of teaching in academic promotion

Benchmark 18Academic staff perceive that teaching

achievements are valued in promotion processes

good practice examples

good practice benchmarks

evidence framework

good practice examples

closed the gap between Teaching & Research

BUT

number of applications for teaching #1 declined

UOW promotion stats

after 2009

evidence for promotion

diamond ranking

perspectives & principles on measuring teaching

support promoting teaching’sgood practice benchmarks 6, 7, 9, 10 &

12

three perspectives on evidence of teaching

scope of activity

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Professional LearningStudent EngagementCurriculum DevelopmentResearch & ScholarshipLeadership & Collaboration

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sample guide for applicant

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