Electronic documents should be submitted by your department administrator via Interfolio. Documents should be ordered and named in Interfolio as described below.
Before you do any of the below, you must first discuss with your academic chair and confirm the appropriate appointment or promotion for you. If you do not know your academic chair, you may find them through the faculty portal.
The candidate’s service statement should include service contributions inside and outside of the University. In terms of contributions inside the University, the candidate should include service inside his/her academic unit (advising, program administration, admissions, searches, seminar coordination, etc.) as well as service outside of the academic unit (committee service, organization of events with other units, etc.).
In addition to enumerating what committees the candidate has served on and what administrative roles he or she has assumed, the candidate should detail what he or she contributed to the mission of the University through that service. The candidate should identify any accomplishments that improved the University.
In terms of service outside of the University, the candidate is encouraged to emphasize service to professional organizations in his/her field (elected positions, conference organization, editorial and refereeing work, etc.). In addition, the candidate should include other service to the public as it relates to his/her position as an expert in his/her field.
The candidate’s teaching statement should provide evidence of teaching excellence and other information that will assist the reviewers in evaluating his or her teaching. The information may describe the following:
His or her teaching philosophy, the courses the candidate has taught (in terms of diversity of subject matter and level)
Course or curriculum development (including syllabi or other relevant/original materials)
Improvement in teaching and efforts to improve teaching, adoption or development of novel methodologies or innovations in the classroom as well as any teaching grants he or she has received, publications on pedagogy.
If the candidate has published a textbook or other teaching materials, he or she should explain any ways in which it is innovative and contributes to improved teaching.
Provide systematic or summary of all teaching evaluations at Georgetown University School of Medicine and/or previous institutions. Note: Individual student evaluations will not be accepted and will result in the return of the applicaiton.
For the Tenure, Assistant Professor rank, the applicant needs two inside letters of support
Letters are addressed to the Chair of the Department
Inside letters mean from an individual holding a Georgetown faculty appointment
Outside letters mean from an individual NOT holding a Georgetown faculty appointment and are arm’s length (letter writer has no previous significant working, training, mentoring or collaborative relationship with the applicant)
All letters should come from writers who are at or above the rank sought by the applicant
Should be dated no earlier than four months before submission via Interfolio
The Applicant provides a list of potential External Evaluators who may be contacted by CAP for a letter of evaluation of the applicant.
Eight names should be provided with contact information
In preparing the list of potential arm’s length external evaluators, applicants are highly encouraged to consult the UCRT rank and Tenure Guidelines
The list should also include information on (1) if and how the candidate knows the potential evaluator, (2) why they are preeminent in their field and (3) whether they can be considered at “arms-length”.
The Department Chair provides a list of potential External Evaluators who may be contacted by CAP for a letter of evaluation of the applicant.
Eight names should be provided with contact information
In preparing the list of potential arm’s length external evaluators, applicants are highly encouraged to consult the UCRT rank and Tenure Guidelines
The list should also include information on (1) if and how the candidate knows the potential evaluator, (2) why they are preeminent in their field and (3) whether they can be considered at “arms-length”.
Offer letters are needed only for first time faculty appointments with Georgetown University Medical Center.
Those seeking promotions do not need an offer letter.
The offer letter must be drafted and sent to the Office of Faculty and Academic Affairs for approval
After the offer letter is formally approved, the department mails the letter and it is signed by the faculty member
The signed copy should be uploaded by the Department Administrator with the remaining contents of the application
Note: This offer letter is for OFAA records and will not be viewed by the Committee on Appointments and Promotions or the University Committee on Rank and Tenure
All sections of the confidential should be completed
Note: This form is for OFAA records and will not be viewed by the Committee on Appointments and Promotions or the University Committee on Rank and Tenure
Promotion and appointment on the Tenure Track, Grant of Tenure as Associate Professor or Professor
Deadline: September 15, 2017
All other applications for: promotion and appointment on the Tenure Track, Grant of Tenure as Associate Professor or Professor, MUST be received in the OFAA by September 15, 2017 in order to meet the University Committee on Rank and Tenure (UCRT) March 1, 2018 deadline. The Office of Faculty and Academic Affairs must have the entire application, including the list of potential arm’s length external evaluator names from the Applicant and the Department Chair by September 15, 2017.
