Transcript Promotion and Tenure for Chairs, Heads, & Administrators

Arlene Carney
Vice Provost for Faculty & Academic
Affairs
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Associate Professor status
Life course of P & T
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Who are you now?
What does it mean in your unit?
What are the challenges ahead?
What are the opportunities ahead?
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Few departmental 7.12 statements made
statements about the expectation to achieve
the rank of professor.
Faculty Tenure was silent on this topic prior
to 2007.
Criteria for promotion to professor were often
brief and non-explicit in existing 7.12
statements.
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Regents Policy: Faculty Tenure
http://www1.umn.edu/regents/policies/humanresources/Fac
ultyTenure.pdf
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Procedures for Reviewing Candidates for
Tenure and/or Promotion: Tenure-Track and
Tenured Faculty
http://www.academic.umn.edu/provost/faculty/tenure/pdf/P
rocedures101207.pdf
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Usually the shortest part of the 7.12
statement.
Most frequent criterion – a national or
international reputation.
Since we have no system of reviews for
associate professors, the path to promotion
is not clear.
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New subsection of 9.2 is in the handout.
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One can remain an associate professor
without post-tenure review.
Do need to achieve a higher level of
performance to become a professor
Associate Professor
Tenure
Probationary
Period
Full Professor
Associate Professor
Tenure
Probationary
Period
Minimum Standards
For Tenure Maintenance
Full Professor
Associate Professor
Tenure
Post-tenure
Review
Probationary
Period
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Fall of 2005 – 38% of associate professors on
the Twin Cities campus had been at that rank
for 8 years or more.
Fall of 2005 – looked at full professors who
spent their careers at UMTC
◦ Average time as an associate professor was 7.9
years
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National and/or international reputation.
Varies by campus and by unit.
Need for a long-term plan and short-term
objectives to build the reputation is
consistent across campuses and units.
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Service load
Teaching focus
Research burnout post tenure
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Semester leaves
Sabbaticals
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Mentoring
◦ Peer mentoring
◦ Senior faculty member
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Self-imposed goal for promotion
Decision about balance of one’s effort
Ways and means to continue and expand on
one’s scholarly interests
Arlene Carney
Vice Provost for Faculty & Academic Affairs
[email protected]
612-626-9545
Karen Zentner Bacig
Associate to the Vice Provost
[email protected]
http://www.academic.umn.edu/provost/
faculty/index.html
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Promoted from Assistant to Associate in May,
2000
Promoted from Associate to Full in May, 2005
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Academia is full of opportunity: Make choices
wisely
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Help your teaching?
Help your research?
Something you want to do personally?
Groom yourself for administrative role?
Service becomes more important but pace yourself.
Ask for portfolio from successful (recent)
person who went through process in your
department.
Ask for feedback
Circulate in press articles to email list.
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Assistant (Goal to be excellent, to survive)
Associate (Goal to be internationally known,
to have a real impact)
Full
◦ Opportunity to ask and pursue big questions, focus
on impact
◦ Mentoring
◦ Running the university
◦ Taking teaching to another level
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Real phenomenon
Do new things
Challenge yourself
Collaborate with new people
Attend a new conference
Talk to others about it
Book: Renewing Research Practice (Stanford Business Books)