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Welcome to the CIRTL Network’s Virtual Coffee Hour

Tenure & Promotion: What you Should Know, What you Should Ask. Welcome to the CIRTL Network’s Virtual Coffee Hour. Don Foss. Philip Cohen. Daniel Mosse. Session begins at 12 (noon) CT When you join the room please run the Audio Setup Wizard: Tools Menu->Audio->Audio Setup Wizard

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Welcome to the CIRTL Network’s Virtual Coffee Hour

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  1. Tenure & Promotion: What you Should Know, What you Should Ask Welcome to the CIRTL Network’s Virtual Coffee Hour • Don Foss • Philip Cohen • Daniel Mosse Session begins at 12 (noon) CT When you join the room please run the Audio Setup Wizard: Tools Menu->Audio->Audio Setup Wizard If you are experiencing problems and/or have questions, please type into the chat window

  2. Ways to Interact during the Coffee Hour Discussion • Turn on/off your microphone: • Raise your hand if you have a question or comment • Turn on/off your video: • Use the chat window to add comments, ask questions, or request help

  3. Tenure & Promotion: What you Should Know, What you Should Ask • Philip Cohen, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Dean, Graduate School, Professor, Dept of English, The University of Texas at Arlington • Daniel Mosse,Professor, Dept Chair, Dept of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh • Don Foss, Professor, Dept of Psychology, University of Houston

  4. Some extra comments on Tenure and Promotion Daniel Mossé Computer Science Department University of Pittsburgh

  5. Thoughts on Tenure and Promotion Get peer reviews of teaching, discuss peers’ opinions with peer and with Dept Chair Add good/revealing/pointed questions to YOUR teaching evaluations Know department AND institution policies and guidelines How important is teaching vs. service vs. grants Make a case for your case! Service, contribution to society, contributions to major(s), etc…

  6. Thoughts on Tenure and Promotion Relax (yes, I said it…) Be nice without being a pushover Talk to people who are ahead of you in the process (and even ask them to help) from the onset Volunteer for College/School-level service to network

  7. Thoughts on Tenure and Promotion Ask about new-parent policy, FMLA, and clock-stopping mechanisms Suggest to your chair to give a talk about your work every (other?) year Try not to “pad” CV (it looks bad) Provide “social networking” metrics, if possible

  8. Texas HB 51 T&P: What You Should Know, What You Should Ask Philip Cohen Professor, English Philip Cohen Vice Provost, Academic Affairs Dean, Graduate School

  9. Tenure & Promotion • T&P is university’s most important process: involves an institution’s future and yours • Series of independent, consecutive reviews of teaching, research, & service typically occurs during the 6th year of a faculty member’s probationary period • Process is often preceded by series of annual reviews, classroom visitations, and a 3rd year review • Before probationary period starts, acquire department, college, and university T&P guidelines in writing: part of negotiation for position • Be sure you understand your unit’s and institution’s guidelines: what’s the institutional context of your case? • Review dossiers of recently-tenured in your unit and develop your 6-year plan • IMP: Don’t go up with the minimum • Save everything from start of your TT appointment: student evaluations, syllabi, presentations, papers, publications, awards, commendations, etc. You’ll winnow materials down later

  10. Making Your Case, Building Your Dossier • Develop your teaching, research, & service philosophies and portfolios over time • Make sure you understand and can execute required dossier format, digital or print • Your dossier should tell a story, not just show that you met department, college, & university guidelines: how your past performance indicates future trajectory and your contribution to the department, college, university, and your field • Research: citation indexes, journal rankings, reviews of your work • Teaching: assemble portfolio that includes but is not limited to student evaluations • Demonstrate meaningful service: TT faculty often have reduced requirement • Document how you addressed concerns in annual and 3rd year reviews and improved: reviewers will attend to this • External reviewers (if applicable): • Select researchers in your field familiar with your work who are not collaboratorsin conducting, presenting, and publishing research: reviewers will discount the letter • Select researchers from institutions and programs with profile equal to or higher than your unit

  11. Discussion • How many of you have decided what sort of institution you would like to work at?: research or teaching emphasis or both

  12. Next Month’s Coffee Hour No More Coffee Hours This Semester Please check back in September for next year’s Coffee Hour Series To sign up to hear about these and other CIRTL events, email info@cirtl.net.

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