Promotion and Tenure Guidelines
The following guidelines are intended to serve as indicators of the types of activity that can be considered as outstanding or acceptable in the process of making decisions on promotion and tenure. They are not intended to serve as absolutes or fixed elements, all of which must be attained in order to be promoted or to receive tenure. This listing of activities is not all inclusive nor does it represent any number of times any given activity must take place. It is the task of the person seeking promotion and/or tenure to present evidence that activities have taken place and with sufficient frequency and of high enough quality to warrant a positive decision toward tenure or promotion. It is the task of the Department Personnel Committee (DPC) to assess the information presented, using their best judgment, to determine if the person making application should receive promotion and/or tenure.
For promotion from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor or for granting tenure it is expected that the candidate will be outstanding in one of the three areas being evaluated (scholarship, teaching, and service) and at least be acceptable in the other two.
For promotion from Associate Professor to Full Professor it is expected that the candidate will be outstanding in two of the three areas being evaluated (scholarship, teaching and service) and at least be acceptable in the third.
Scholarly Activity
| Acceptable |
A consistent record that includes:
- Attendance at professional conferences.
- Publication in state or regional refereed journals.
- Publication in state, regional, national, or international non-refereed journals or newsletters.
- Presentations at local, state, or regional conferences.
- Presentations at RCOE or ASU sponsored symposia or colloquia.
- Evidence of on-going inquiry.
- Participation on review boards for journals and other scholarly publications.
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| Outstanding |
A consistent record that includes:
- Publication in national or international refereed journals.
- Publication of a book, a monograph, or a chapter of a book.
- Presentations at national or international conferences.
- Supervision of student scholarly publications.
- Nominated for or received awards for writing/scholarly activity.
- Production significant artifacts such as a video or museum exhibit.
- Writing or directing funded grants that seek to add to the body of knowledge (research grants).
- Serves as editor or on an editorial board for a journal.
There is a continuum of activity running from acceptable to outstanding. A modest level of activity/publications is found at the acceptable end of the continuum moving up to a more prolific level of activity/publications at the outstanding end of the continuum. |
Teaching
| Acceptable As Recognized Skill in Teaching |
- Good student evaluations and Peer reviews that indicate good teaching.
- Good unsolicited feedback about classes.
- Appropriate use of technology.
- Appropriate infusion of issues of diversity.
- Serve on thesis and dissertation committees.
- Evidence that content is kept current..
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| Outstanding Skill in Teaching |
- High student evaluations.
- Peer reviews that indicate excellence.
- Excellent unsolicited feedback on classes.
- Chair of thesis and dissertation committees.
- Evidence of infusion of scholarly activity into instruction.
- Participation in professional development related to instruction.
- Evidence of revisions of existing courses that significantly improve them.
- Developing new courses that enhance the curriculum of a program.
- Offers well conceived independent studies and appropriately designed individual studies.
- Evidence of the infusion of technology into course activities that significantly enhances students’ experience or serves as a model of technology use by students.
- Nominated for and/or received teaching awards.
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Service
| Acceptable |
- Serves on department, college, university committees as needed.
- Member of professional organizations.
- Contributes to public schools (K-12), community colleges, or libraries, etc.
- Advises students
- Serves on a review boards for journals.
- Serves as a member of or consultant for a taskforce, committee, commission, or institution.
- Serve as a program coordinator.
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| Outstanding |
- Serves as a key officer or chair of department, college, or university committee.
- Active and productive member of multiple department, college, or university committees.
- Serves as a board member or officer of a state, regional, national, or international organization.
- Directs or is an active participant making outstanding contributions to accreditation and program reviews.
- Wrote or directs funded grant that seeks to improved Appalachian, community, etc. (service grants).
- Nominated for or recipient of a service award.
- Record of advocacy/leadership in addressing current educational issues.
- Plans or organizing a conference.
- Active participant/leader of curricular revisions for a program.
- Superior work as program coordinator.
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