Tenure in the College of Arts

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Tenure in the College of Arts Sciences

• Thoughts and Tips for Women in the Sciences

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Who decides?

• YOU
• Your Record
• Your Dossier
• Your Department
• Special Departmental Committee
• Departmental Faculty as a whole
• Chair
• College Council
• Advisory to the Dean

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RESEARCH
TEACHING
SERVICE
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RESEARCH High quality Independent Outside grant
support Steady and increasing output Significance
of work to your field
CV PERSONAL STATEMENT Your research goals How
each paper and ongoing project relates to these
goals The significance of your work in layman
terms
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TEACHING
UNDERGRADUATE Course evaluations Student Peer
review (faculty) Undergraduate research
mentoring GRADUATE Research students in your
lab Graduate Committees PERSONAL
STATEMENT Teaching philosophy Problems and how
you are solving them
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SERVICE
Departmental Committees College/University
Committees Professional Societies National
Grant Review Panels Outreach to community
Dont do too much until you get your research and
teaching under control
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LETTERS OF EVALUATION
Evaluators chosen by Chair from lists suggested
by you and by the Departmental review committee
and other senior faculty Minimum of 3 and
maximum of 5 letters required AT LEAST 3 from
persons with no substantial personal connection
or professional collaboration with you
Evaluators asked to provide the following
information 1) How and for how long he/she has
known the candidate 2) The significance,
independence, influence, and promise of the
candidates scholarship (particularly that done
since coming to UW) and the degree of
national/international recognition 3) A
comparison of the candidates accomplishments
with leading scholars at a similar career stage