tenure track process
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Tenure Track Process. Joi Patterson, PhD VPAA/COO. 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. Tenure. Year 1: Concentrate on Teaching - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Joi Patterson, PhDVPAA/COO
Tenure Track Process
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Criteria for Tenure• Faculty member must demonstrate competence and promise of long
term usefulness to the mission programs of Calumet College of St. Joseph
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Collection Process• Portable Portfolio Box
– Teaching – Service– Scholarship
• Same process for electronic files
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Type of Mediums• Hard Copy applications• Electronic applications via email• Electronic application via CD, which could include videos• Website application, which could include videos
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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Scholarship• Boyer Model of Discovery
– Same as Above– Creative Works within your discipline– Artwork– Music– Dance– Poetry– Entrepreneurship
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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)
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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
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Resources• Department Chair• Vice President of Academic Affairs• Library- Sample Applications and Exhibits• Boyer Scholarship Reconsidered• Portable Portfolio Box
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Next Topics of Interest• Publication of journals and books• National Presentations• Packaging your application• U-Tube• CD and Hyperlinks• Website