In R, T & P!

1. In R, T & P! College of Health Sciences RT&P Workshop September, 2014

2. T & P – A bit overwhelming?

3. We’re here to help!

4. End in Mind • Understand your pathway to reappointment, tenure, and promotion. • Explain the organizational structure of the RT&P packet. • Analyze strategies for communicating your work effectively.

5. UW 5-1 • Designation • Appointment • College Guidelines • Review Process • UW 5-1 • Designation • Appointment • UW 5-408 • Review Process

6. Path to Tenure and Promotion to Assistant Professor Path to Professor

7. Non-Tenure Track Faculty (Clinical Faculty) Path to Reappointment Path to Reappointment

8. Extended Term Academic Professional Path to Extended Term Reappointment Path

9. Non-Extended Term Academic Professional Path to Reappointment Path to Reappointment

10. Promotiontimeframe is not tied to years of service. • Use academic unit standards to determine readiness. Extended Term APNon-Extended Term APNon-Tenure Track Faculty (Clinical) Path to Promotion

11. The T & P Map Division/School Faculty Vote Director/Head College Dean College T & P Committee University T & P Committee Office of Academic Affairs

12. Trustees’ action • Only positive cases forwarded • March for first-year cases; May for all others • There is no tenure until the Trustees confer it.

13. Rule #1A picture is NOT worth a thousand words! • Clearly articulate • what you are expected to do, • how you do it, • how the two are related.

14. PORTFOLIO (Packet) • Documentation of performance • Teaching evaluations (students, peers, administrators) • Research record (publications, grants, creative work) • Service (UW committees, statewide service, • professional organizations) • Evidence of progress • Job description and expectations • Record of previous decisions at all levels • Written evaluations by candidate, peers, and administrators • External evaluations • Letters from outside experts (T&P cases) • Letters from former students

15. Rule #2Organize Organize Organize • Systematically design your packet. • Table of Contents • Clearly label sections

16. What’s new in the CHS packet? • New Binders/Tabs • Some modification to order/location of material • Inclusion of UW regulation language • New Instructions/Items • Job description instructions • Encompass period of review • Can address changes to job description in essay

17. What’s new in the CHS packet? • Supporting Documents Section • Research/Professional Development Summary • Delineate courses by academic semester/year in course list • Student evaluations* • Student evaluations from past 2 academic years (raw data/comments) * See Dean’s memo.

18. Rule #3It’s not WHAT you say, it’s HOW you say it! • Attend to details. • Insure that all sections are complete.

19. Rule #4Prepare your packet for the “stranger” • Know your audience. • Don’t assume that your colleagues will understand your research, teaching, and service. • The further your packet makes it through the system, the less familiar your audience will be. • Seek out external feedback.

20. Rule #5Balance the Scales! • Explain any discrepancies that may be seen in your materials. • Respond to faculty/committee feedback. • Provide thorough documentation, especially if you have a non-traditional faculty position.

21. Rule #6Faculty Essay Connect the Dots! • Draw connections between your research, teaching, and service performance to: • Division/School Mission • College Goals & Objectives • University Mission/Academic Plan

22. How to construct the essay • Precise and concise statement that “connects the dots.” • Remember your audience. • It is not about educating your audience about your research. • It is about providing evidence of your scholarship.

23. Have you addressed these questions about scholarship? • Where am I now? • Where am I going? • How will the reviewer know I got there? • Research plan • How does my research contribute to the body of knowledge in my discipline? • What is the impact of my research? • How is my research novel? • What makes my research relevant and meaningful?

24. Does your essay do this? • Show trajectory … connect the dots. • Illustrate how: • grants lead to publications? • presentations lead to publications? • publications lead to publications?

25. Does your reflection on teaching do this? • Explain why you choose teaching strategies and methods? • Illustrate how you use feedback (i.e., student, peer, self) to modify and/or retain teaching strategies and methods? • Show connections to research- or evidence-based best practice? • Show a trajectory of improvement and/or sustained excellence?

26. Does your reflection on service, leadership and professional/clinical practice? • Provide evidence of contributing to the service mission of the university? • Reflect public engagement beyond the university community? • Provide evidence of your leadership role in practices and in professional development? • Illustrate how your professional or clinical practices are evidence based and ultimately innovative?

27. Do you address your professional development? • Workshops you attend • Conferences you attend • CEUs • Other

28. Rule #7 The early bird catches the worm! • Keep your packet up-to-date. • Make sure your job description is accurate and up-to-date. • Job descriptions can be updated on an annual basis.

29. Helpful hint for newly minted assistant professors • Make a list of important scholars in your field. • Make sure it has wide representation and heft. • Send them copies of your work as you complete it.

30. Rule #8 The buck stops HERE! • Ultimately, you are responsible for your success. • So, it is really all about ME in T & P!

31. Now What?