The quality of the candidate's work should be emphasized and not overlooked due to quantity. Members of the first committee are not allowed to discuss their assessment with the candidate.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS PROMOTION AND TENURE COMMITTEE The members of the SLA Promotion and Tenure Committee are elected by the faculty, as described in the bylaws
The committee evaluates any service and service leadership (e.g., involvement in a special task force or leadership in program reorganization) performed by the candidate at all levels of the University, as well as in disciplinary/professional organizations and the community. in compliance with confidentiality rules. In addition to assessing the quality of the candidate's individual contributions, the committee assesses coherence and quality. development and potential value of the candidate's overall service approach. The members of the SLA Promotion and Tenure Committee are elected by the faculty, as described in the statutes.
Candidates for promotion and/or tenure must not have direct or indirect contact with the commission or its members regarding their cases. The SLA's Promotion and Tenure Committee will evaluate the Primary's recommendations. committee and department chair, considering whether the recommendations are based on appropriate peer review, whether the candidate's rights have been protected in accordance with the procedures established by the university, and whether the academic mission, responsibilities and expectations under which the candidate was considered initially. In the event that the SLA Promotion and Tenure Committee makes a recommendation that differs from the primary committee, the SLA Promotion and Tenure Committee will not forward that recommendation to the dean without first consulting that committee and, as appropriate, the Chair of candidate's home department.
EXTERNAL LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION
After all responsibilities for reviewing candidates for promotion and/or tenure are completed each fall, and before the third-year reviews are conducted each spring, the SLA Promotion and Tenure Committee is responsible for reviewing the SLA P&T Guidelines and forwarding recommended updates and edits to the Agenda Board for consideration by the Faculty Meeting. Guidelines for Preparing and Reviewing Promotion and Tenure Files provide detailed guidance on the language to use in these letters, along with examples; these must be followed carefully. Letters from collaborators are required to document how much credit the candidate deserves for jointly written work.
Employees are well positioned to comment on a colleague's level of participation, but they should not be called upon to judge the quality or importance of the candidate's work. Assessment of the candidate's contributions to interdisciplinary work, including written evaluations from appropriate colleagues in research centers or other departments or programs. In some cases it may be necessary to invite external evaluators to campus to view works or performances, although promotion and assessment of tenure may take several years” (IUPUI P&T Guidelines, 2014-15, p .62).
JOINT AND ADJUNCT APPOINTMENTS AND INVOLVEMENT IN MULTIPLE PROGRAMS A. Joint Appointments
In order to give candidates time to gather material for inclusion in the external letters, department chairs will notify candidates in good time of the June 1 deadline. The procedures to be followed must be submitted in writing to the dean(s) at the very latest before or on 1 March of the year in which the candidate is going forward for promotion and/or tenure. Candidates for promotion and/or tenure must include a copy of the joint appointment MOU in an attachment to the promotion dossier.
In cases of an additional appointment, the chairman of the primary appointment section must ensure that the primary committee consults with appropriate representatives of the external unit in a form that allows for adequate consideration of all relevant information. The chairperson of the candidate's home department will request a written evaluation of the degree and quality of the candidate's contributions from the director or chairperson of the relevant department, center or program for inclusion in the dossier. Once documentation of a candidate's interdisciplinary or other program activities is included in the dossier, it will be considered an integral part of the evaluation of the candidate at all stages of review and by all reviewers.
GUIDELINES FOR EVALUATING APPLIED RESEARCH
A copy must be given to the candidate at the same time as it is given to the dean. Active participation in the activities of interdisciplinary programs can form an ongoing and integrated part of a faculty member's professional activities. To the extent this is the case, these efforts should be recognized along with other relevant activities in the evaluation procedures for promotion and employment.
Candidates will be asked to include, as part of their promotion and tenure dossier, a detailed statement of all teaching, research and service activities they have undertaken as participants in the relevant interdisciplinary programme. When applied research is included in the dossier, it must be peer-reviewed in the candidate's field if it is to contribute to the case for promotion and tenure. External reviewers should be asked to evaluate all aspects of candidates' work, including items such as letters from non-academics and professionals from other disciplines who are in a position to validate the candidate's work, and demonstrate that it ' a contribution to knowledge within the discipline and/or to the variety of audiences listed above.
GUIDELINES FOR EVALUATING BALANCED CASES
If applied researchers choose research as their field, publications in quality media are expected as evidence of scientific work. In addition, candidates whose main specialization is applied research are expected to present papers and participate in scientific meetings and colloquia, demonstrating their commitment to current scientific knowledge in this field. In addition to traditional publications, applied research can also include work such as securing grants and research contracts for themselves, their students and their collaborators; serving as an advisor, working with a range of non-university groups and organisations, and participating in national organisations; scientific editing; recorded oral documents; reports and collaborative projects;.
GUIDELINES FOR EXTENDING AN OFFER FOR TENURE TO A SEARCH CANDIDATE Any candidate being considered for a position with tenure must be scheduled to meet with the IUPUI Chief
Three additional letters of reference (for a total of six letters) requested by the Chair or Search Committee Chair, which are independent of any suggestions made by the candidate. NOTE: The three letters requested must meet the business and peer-institutional (or better) criteria required for tenure review; the three letters that the candidate provides as part of the application procedure do not have to meet that standard. Candidate's personal statement on research, teaching and service, if not included in the application letter.
For candidates who are not from a comparable or better research institution and/or have not previously completed a successful tenure review, in addition to the points above, an accelerated tenure review process must also be conducted as part of the offer approval process. Approval by the department primary committee or by all faculty with tenure and appropriate rank. For an expedited tenure review, letters of consent from each of the review levels need only indicate support for the tenured appointment; detailed justification is not necessary if the evaluation is positive.
GUIDELINES AND PROCEDURES FOR NEGATIVE AND DIVERGENT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TENURE AND/OR PROMOTION
Under the “Dean Responsibilities” section, the following guidance is provided: “A candidate for tenure must be notified at the primary level of a negative tenure review. The request for reconsideration must be submitted within two weeks after the faculty member or librarian becomes aware of the negative recommendation and before the next level review is completed. Under unusual circumstances, reconsideration of promotion decisions may be permitted with the approval of the Chief Academic Officer.
In the event that the SLA Promotion and Tenure Committee makes a recommendation that differs from the primary committee regarding the designation of a candidate's area of excellence or their vote, the SLA Promotion and Tenure Committee will not forward that recommendation to the Dean without first consulting that committee and, if applicable, with the president of the candidate's home department. Persons seeking additional materials are responsible for providing them to all interested parties. Each year, the Office of Academic Affairs (AAO) establishes "timelines" and "deadlines" for the various stages of the promotion and tenure review process.
PROCEDURES
The new PDF file is added to the candidate's existing PDF portfolio as a new section so that subsequent reviewers will know that an addition was made during the review process. According to a document outlining those timelines and deadlines for when a school must submit files to the campus level, “If. During the consultation, the discussion should take into account the relative importance of the criteria, principles or evidence used in the evaluation that led to the adverse recommendation.
Every effort should be made to ensure that consultation takes place prior to a request for reconsideration. The applicant may choose to use material resulting from the consultation to support a request for reconsideration (see Section II.A above). If the consultation takes place at the same time as the applicant has submitted a request for reconsideration, the record of the consultation and the response to the request for reconsideration may be included together in the final report of the evaluation panel.
Candidates for Promotion and/or Tenure
NOTE
The faculty member must provide a personal statement describing contributions to the school's educational and service missions, as well as a resume. Although a national reputation for excellence is not expected, according to campus P&T guidelines, “there is some level of national peer-. Promotion to the rank of senior associate faculty is a recognition of excellence in teaching in the School of Liberal Arts and a vote of confidence in future high-quality education.
Candidates for promotion to the rank of Senior Associate Faculty will provide their department with evidence of teaching excellence. The promotion assessment committee assesses the portfolio and makes a recommendation for promotion to the chairman or director. The organization should be similar to the statement the candidate will make if considered for tenure and promotion.
The P&T committee sends it to the candidate and sends a copy of it to the dean and to the candidate's chairperson. Any response from the candidate should go to the candidate's chair or to the dean, not directly to the P&T committee.
