A Journey through the Seas of Tenure, Promotion, and the Academic Personnel Board

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A Journey through the Seas of Tenure, Promotion,
and the Academic Personnel Board
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New Faculty Orientation 2009

• Presenters
• Angel Kwolek-Folland, Associate Provost for
  Academic Affairs and Professor of History and
  Womens Studies
• Linda Bobroff, Professor of Nutrition, Department
  of Family, Youth and Community Sciences,
  Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
• Kenneth Anusavice, Distinguished Professor and
  Associate Dean, College of Dentistry

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TP Contacts

• Your Chair, Faculty Mentor, or College Associate
  Dean
• Angel Kwolek-Folland, Associate Provost and
  Secretary to the APB akf_at_aa.ufl.edu
• Janet Malphurs, Assistant Director, Human
  Resources, Academic Personnel, jmmalph_at_ufl.edu
• Marjory Kovacevic, Coordinator, Faculty Academic
  Programs, College of Medicine, marjoryk_at_ufl.edu
• Mary Anne Morgan, Director, Human Resources,
  IFAS, marym_at_ufl.edu

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Sources of Information

• http//www.aa.ufl.edu/tenure/ for Guidelines and
  Information Regarding the Tenure, Permanent
  Status and Promotion Process for 2009-10
• http//regulations.ufl.edu/ for UF Regulations on
  tenure and promotion process, permanent status,
  P.K. Younge, and County Extension Faculty
• http//medinfo.ufl.edu/faculty/faculty_programs
  for UF College of Medicine information, Handbook,
  and guidelines
• http//personnel.ifas.ufl.edu/tenure.shtml for
  IFAS

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Observations

• 3 Broad Categories
• Teaching
• Research
• Service
• Tenure requires distinction
• Two areas
• Normally teaching research
• College department guidelines clarify
  expectations and distinction
• Timing
• Mid-career review for tenure-accruing
• You must be nominated for tenure by beginning of
  last year of tenure probationary period, although
  you may elect earlier consideration.

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Tenure When Ready

• You do not have to wait until the end of your
  probationary period to put yourself up for tenure
  and promotion.
• You can go forward when ready.
• Consult with chair, faculty mentor(s), and others
  about your readiness.

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The Dossiers Journey

• AprilJune prior to cycle year solicitation of
  letters (you and chair)
• Your Hands ? preparation summer prior to cycle
  year
• Department Faculty for Review and Vote ?
• Chair for Letter ?fall of cycle year
• College Committee for Assessment ?
• Dean for Letter ?fall of cycle year
• Academic Personnel Board ?spring of cycle year
• President ?May approves promotion, recommends
  tenure
• Board of Trustees ? June approves tenure

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Communication

• If, for any reason, questions arise at any point
  in the review process, you need to be available
  to respond.
• You will know when your dossier goes to the
  college and APB because you will see your chairs
  and deans letters.
• After that, you may hear nothing until the
  President communicates his decision to you in
  late May-early June.

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Scholarly Impact

• Demonstrating scholarly impact
• Expectations for tenure and promotion to
  associate professor are different in degree than
  for promotion to professor
• Evaluators address different contexts impact on
  department, college, university, national and/or
  international profession, discipline teaching,
  research, service
• Translating your work
• Evidence of scholarly impact varies somewhat from
  discipline to discipline

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Tips for success

• Identify your program, niche, or specialty
  focus, then strive to be a national/international
  leader
• Identify what constitutes excellence in your
  field (journals, grants, performance venues,
  conferences, books, teaching) and aim to be there
• Set goals and milepostskeep a stream of work
  flowing into the pipeline
• Review the promotion and tenure guidelines
• Use your resources--colleagues, workshops,
  in-service training, mentors, leaders in your
  unit and college
• Keep your FTE assignments in perspective talk
  to your chair

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Example Grants

• Role Principal Investigator
• 2,000 UF Scholarship Enhancement Fund
• 20,000 International Foundation for Music
  Research
• 450,000 Fund for the Improvement of
  Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE)
• 20,000 IR-4, USDA
• 300,000 Florida Department of Agriculture and
  Consumer Service
• 9,000,000 NIH