Transcript Promotion and Tenure for Chairs, Heads, & Administrators

Promotion to Full Professor
Arlene Carney
Vice Provost for Faculty & Academic
Affairs
General Topics
 Introduction
 Tenure Code
 Proposed New 7.11 Statement
 Revisions of 7.12 Statements
 Proposed New 9.2 Statement
 Long-Term Planning
 Dossier Preparation
Introduction
 Life course of P & T
 Associate Professor status
 Discussion
Life Course of P & T
 Six-year probationary period with one
grace year for assistant professors
 According to Section 5.5 of the
Tenure Code, probationary faculty can
stop the tenure clock.
 Stated explicitly in the Tenure Code
Life Course of P & T
 Few departmental 7.12 statements
make statements about the
expectation to achieve the rank of
professor.
 Tenure Code is silent on this topic.
 Criteria for promotion to professor are
often brief and non-explicit.
Guiding Documents
 Faculty Tenure Code
http://www1.umn.edu/regents/policies/
humanresources/FacultyTenure.pdf
 Procedures for Reviewing the
Performance of Probationary Faculty
http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/policies/
performance/probfacreview.html
Faculty Tenure Code
 Describes criteria for tenure at the
university level
 Describes mandatory annual review
of probationary faculty
 Describes the overall process for
tenure and promotion to associate
professor
Faculty Tenure Code
 Describes the procedures for due
process for denial of tenure and/or
promotion
 Describes post-tenure review process
 Section 9 describes the appointment
of faculty with indefinite tenure.
Section 7.11
 General criteria for promotion and for
conferral of indefinite tenure
 Handout has old 7.11 and latest draft
of 7.11 from the Academic Freedom
and Tenure Committee
Section 7.12 of the Tenure Code
 Department statement of criteria for
promotion and tenure
 Must be shown to new faculty
according to the tenure code
 Should reflect the values of the
faculty for promotions and conferral
of indefinite tenure
Promotion from Associate to Full
Professor
 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.
Section 9.2 of the Tenure Code
 Handout has the old language of the
current section 9 – this is proposed as
new subsection 9.1.
 New subsection of 9.2 is in the
handout.
9.2 and Post-Tenure Review
 One can remain an associate
professor without post-tenure review.
 Do need to achieve a higher level of
performance to become a professor
Faculty Life Course
Associate Professor
Tenure
Probationary
Period
Faculty Life Course
Full Professor
Associate Professor
Tenure
Probationary
Period
Minimum Standards
For Tenure Maintenance
Faculty Life Course
Full Professor
Associate Professor
Tenure
Post-tenure
Review
Probationary
Period
Current Status of Associate
Professors at Minnesota
 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
Midlife Faculty
 Baldwin et al. (2005) described
stages
 Probationary period is clearly
demarcated (early life < 39 yrs old)
 Early midlife (40-49)
 Late midlife (50-59)
 Late faculty life ( 60 or older)
Midlife Faculty
 Spend more time on teaching and
administration in late midlife and late
life than other groups.
 Early midlife faculty have highest
percentage of publications and
presentations, with late midlife
faculty coming in next.
Midlife Faculty
 More early midlife faculty have higher
rates of dissatisfaction than other
groups.
 Time of reassessment and redirection
 Some report of research productivity
going down.
Criteria for Professor
 National and/or international
reputation.
 Varies by campus and by unit.
 Need for a long-term plan and shortterm objectives to build the
reputation is consistent across
campuses and units.
Perceived Impediments
 Service load
 Teaching focus
 Research burnout post tenure
Effort Distribution
Important
Not Important
Urgent
Not Urgent
0%
Research Incentives
 Semester leaves
 Sabbaticals
Continued Needs
 Mentoring
 Peer mentoring
 Senior faculty member
 Self-imposed goal for promotion
 Decision about balance of one’s effort
 Ways and means to revitalize one’s
scholarly interests
Contact Information
Arlene Carney
Vice Provost for Faculty & Academic
Affairs
[email protected]
612-624-9545
Contact Information
Karen Zentner Bacig
Assistant to the Vice Provost
[email protected]
Robin Matross Helms
Coordinator of Faculty Awards
[email protected]
Provost’s Web Site
http://www.academic.umn.edu/provost/faculty