Creation of a Tenure Line appointment requires prior approval by the Dean of the School of Health and the Executive Vice President. Applications for Tenure Line appointments will not be considered without this approval. If you have any questions after reviewing the Tenure requirements, please contact the Vice President of Faculty and Academic Affairs, Dr. Elliott Crooke.
Tenured Line Appointment: Associate or Full Professor
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 department chair and confirm the appropriate appointment or promotion for you. If you do not know your academic leader, you may find them on the Department Chair and Admin list.
The Department Chair shall indicate in the forwarding letter[1]to the APT Committee the needs of the School that the candidate is expected to fill. When the Committee engages in full review of a candidate’s appointment, it will request these minimum materials to be submitted by the candidate (and any application requiring subsequent UCRT review must include and omit if forbidden all materials listed in the UCRT Guidelines for Submission of Rank and Tenure Applications by Tenure- line Faculty):
[1] Chair letters are generally not permitted for cases that will proceed to UCRT. Specific detail is provided in UCRT guidance documents.
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.
The candidate should write a research statement that indicates how the candidate has made an original contribution to the field and identify the most important publications, and how they align with each other.
While peer-reviewed publications are given the most weight in most fields in rank and tenure assessments, candidates should describe unpublished (but substantially advanced) work and other projects under way to provide evaluators with a good idea of the future direction and trajectory of their research.
The candidate’s research statement should summarize collaborative work, emphasizing his/her critical and significant role/contribution to the collaborative work.
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 applicant provides a list of potential External Evaluators who may be contacted by APT for a letter of evaluation of the applicant
Eight names should be provided with contact information including email address
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”
Submit major scholarly publications completed since appointment or the last promotion should be included in the dossier
Deadlines
For appointments, applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Please see the APT meeting schedule and deadlines (also copied below). The full dossier must be submitted and uploaded in Interfolio at least 10 days prior to the scheduled APT meeting.
Please work with your department administrator to confirm the date that they need the dossier to upload in time for the dossier deadline.
Deadline for Departments to finish uploading the appointment applications in Interfolio
