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Tenure Track Process

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

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Tenure Track Process

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  1. Tenure Track Process Joi Patterson, PhD VPAA/COO

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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 Timeline

  5. 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.

  6. Faculty member must demonstrate competence and promise of long term usefulness to the mission programs of Calumet College of St. Joseph Criteria for Tenure

  7. 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

  8. 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 Application Process for Rank and Tenure

  9. 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 Timelines for Rank and Tenure

  10. Up or Or Process • 1 year contract for Year 7 • Program not viable • Appeal Process to Tenure Judiciary Committee What Happens if You Don’t Get Tenure????

  11. Portable Portfolio Box • Teaching • Service • Scholarship • Same process for electronic files Collection Process

  12. Hard Copy applications • Electronic applications via email • Electronic application via CD, which could include videos • Website application, which could include videos Type of Mediums

  13. 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 Application Content

  14. 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) Self Evaluation Content

  15. 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 Service

  16. 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

  17. Boyer Model of Discovery • Same as Above • Creative Works within your discipline • Artwork • Music • Dance • Poetry • Entrepreneurship Scholarship

  18. 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) How to Maximize Your Chances of Tenure

  19. 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 Maximize Your Success as a Professor

  20. Department Chair • Vice President of Academic Affairs • Library- Sample Applications and Exhibits • Boyer Scholarship Reconsidered • Portable Portfolio Box Resources

  21. Publication of journals and books • National Presentations • Packaging your application • U-Tube • CD and Hyperlinks • Website Next Topics of Interest

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