Transcript Nathan Smith, Educational and Counselling Psychology

Insights on the Tenure
Application Process
Nathan Grant Smith, Ph.D.
Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology
The Lead-Up
 Keep your CV up to date!
 Bookmark the Secretariat’s Office website for tenure
forms, including key dates and instructions:
http://www.mcgill.ca/secretariat/tenureandpromotion/te
nure/forms/
 Make sure you’re using the most up-to-date forms
 If going up early, must speak to Chair/Dean/Director of
Libraries (by April 15)
 Note that if tenure is not awarded, candidate will go up again
at normal time
 Identify external reviewers
 Provide rationale for why they’re suitable: give a blurb about
their expertise, their accomplishments (similar to what you’d
include in a grant application)
The Application
 Get examples from your unit
 Use reappointment dossier as a starting point
 Separate statements for research, teaching, and
service
 Teaching does not go in the external file
 Highlight your student’s accomplishments; their
good work reflects positively on you
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Funding (CIHR, SSHRC, NSERC, etc.)
Awards
Leadership activities
Note when you’ve published/presented with students
The Application
 Have senior colleagues provide feedback
 Compile
 Teaching evaluations
 Course outlines
 PDFs of publications
 Awards
 Service-related documents (e.g., masthead of
journals for which you serve on the editorial board)
 Anything else that provides evidence of your
success (e.g., funding notifications, newsletter
articles, press coverage)
The Minutiae
 Become an expert at using Adobe Acrobat Pro
(Google should be your friend)
 Electronic portfolio requires separate PDFs for each
component
 int_SmithN_CV.pdf
 int_SmithN_TeachingPortfolio.pdf
 Submit by putting all the files onto a flash drive
 These details come from the Secretariat’s website
The Follow-Up
 You may add material related to research to the
tenure dossier until November 15
 I did this via a cover letter outlining any new
presentations/publications with evidence attached
 Then you wait (and celebrate being finished)
 Final decision comes in May
Thanks and Good Luck!
Nathan Grant Smith, Ph.D.
514-398-3454
[email protected]