Transcript Major Reviews - University of Massachusetts Boston

Major Reviews
4th year and Tenure
Co-Sponsors
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Office for Faculty Development, under
the aegis of the Provost
Faculty Staff Union
Rajini Srikanth, English, Associate Provost
Catherine Lynde, FSU President
Camille Martinez, Coordinator, Office for
Faculty Development
Today’s Presenters
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Erik Blaser, Psychology, CLA
Robin Codding, Counseling and School
Psychology, CEHD
Darren Kew, Conflict Resolution, MGS
Mickaella Perina, Philosophy, CLA
Maureen Scully, Management &
Marketing, CM
Bela Torok, Chemistry, CSM
Important Resources
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Red Book – spells out in broad strokes the
process of major personnel reviews
Master Calendar – available on the web in
the Provost’s site
Obligations and Rights of Faculty
Members—FSU
Website Addresses
Master Calendar's Summary of Major Personnel
Action dates:
http://www.umb.edu/editor_uploads/images
/provost/Personnel%20Action%2011-12.pdf
Forms/policies/procedures are outlined in more
detail at:
http://www.umb.edu/editor_uploads/images/p
rovost/ImplementationGuidelines.pdf
Annual Faculty Reports
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Take them seriously
They are required (obligation)
Update them periodically (if possible!)
Main source of regular documentation
Vehicle for feedback from department
peers and chair
Ensure accuracy of information
“Challenging” your AFR evaluation
Delay of
Tenure Decision Year
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Under what conditions– maternity,
paternity, medical (for self, for family
member for whom one is the primary care
giver)
How to request it
When to request it
Timing of request is important
Implications of not requesting it at the
appropriate moment
Initiating Major Personnel
Review
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Role of department chair
When the process is initiated (in the
spring semester prior to the academic year
of a major personnel review): typically,
March
What the conversation with the chair
should include: steps in the process,
faculty member’s obligations, material to
be gathered, timeline, and deadlines
4th Year Review
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A kind of mini-tenure
Assessment of areas to strengthen
4th year review feedback – clarity about
degree of progress; clarity about what is
expected for tenure
Pay attention to the recommendations you
receive and address them in the time to
tenure.
Personal Statement
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Your opportunity to tell your story, to
present yourself
Length – there is no standard length, but
please be reasonable.
Writing it can be a most fulfilling exercise.
Highlight the positives.
Explain the negatives– do not be silent
about them.
Reviewers
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How the review committee gets constituted
(varies by department); who can serve on it
4th year reviews typically do not require external
(to UMass Boston) reviewers
Selecting students to write letters
Faculty member’s rights and obligations at each
level of the review process – DPC, Chair, CPC,
Dean.
Each level of review is independent
Tenure
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Role of department chair
Selection of external reviewers
Constitution of committee
Materials to be provided
Function of personal statement
Role of DPC in presenting faculty
member’s case
Assessment of
Scholarship/Research
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Department-level discussion; involve junior
faculty
Produces the most anxiety on the part of faculty
Clarify value of different types of publication–
peer-reviewed journal articles, chapters in edited
collections, monograph, book reviews,
conference proceedings, commissioned reports,
and so on.
Distinction between “accepted for publication”
and “in press”
High impact but “few” publications?
Teaching and Service
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Balance between newly designed courses
and repeated courses
Teaching at all levels of the curriculum?
Address problematic teaching evaluations
in your AFR and in your personal
statement
How to determine what service is
appropriate
Role of the chair in advising faculty
member about service
Service to the profession– importance of
Common Goals
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You want to succeed
We want you to succeed
Toward that end, we will do our best
to provide you the necessary support
Rajini Srikanth and Catherine Lynde