Faculty Affairs

1. Faculty Affairs Arlene Carney Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs

2. Academic Faculty Benefits • Faculty single semester leaves- one semester at full pay • Faculty sabbaticals- up to one year at half pay • Policies

3. Faculty Single-Semester Leaves • Probationary (tenure-track) faculty are eligible after two years of service. • Tenured faculty are eligible after four years of service. • Each college has a competitive process. • Up to 4% of faculty are entitled to leaves per year.

4. Faculty Sabbaticals • Faculty are eligible after six years of service. • May bring three years of eligibility from another institution. • May be supplemented by additional funds from the college and central administration.

5. Faculty Responsibilities • Outside Consulting Policy • Should not exceed on average 1 day per 7-day week during the term of appointment • Must be reported and approved • Cannot interfere with University duties

6. Faculty Responsibilities • Fill out REPA (Report of External Professional Activities) form each year. • http://egms.umn.edu/REPA/

7. Code of Conduct • Regents Policy that governs conduct for the University community • http://www1.umn.edu/regents/policies/academic/Code_of_Conduct.html

8. Faculty Development: External Programs • CIC Academic Leadership Program- 5 fellows per year- associate professor and above- travel to other CIC institutions three weekends per year • CIC Department Executive Officers Program- 5 chairs/heads per year- one weekend per year

9. Faculty Development: Leadership • New Chairs’ & Heads’ Program • Faculty Women’s Cabinet • Faculty Leadership Workshops • Faculty Governance Opportunities

10. Faculty Development: Center for Teaching and Learning • Early Career Series • Faculty Learning Communities • Classroom Observation Program • Consultation Service • Mid Career Faculty Learning Community • Multi-Cultural Teaching & Learning Fellowship

11. Faculty Development: Center for Teaching and Learning • Teaching Enrichment Series • Making Meaning of a Life of Teaching

12. Faculty Development: Center for Writing • Workshops on using writing effectively in teaching • Individual faculty consultations

13. Internal Faculty Awards: Research • McKnight Land Grant Professorship- untenured assistant professors • McKnight Distinguished Professorship- mid career tenured faculty • McKnight Presidential Fellows • Newly tenured associate professors • All three are competitive processes.

14. Internal Faculty Awards • Regents Professorships • Outstanding Service Awards

15. Faculty Awards: Teaching • Morse-Alumni Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Teaching • Award for Outstanding Contributions to Graduate and Professional Teaching

16. Promotion & Tenure at the University of Minnesota Arlene Carney Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs

17. P & T Life Cycle • Assistant professor without tenure (typical) • Associate professor without tenure (less typical) • Associate professor with tenure • Full professor with tenure

18. Guiding Documents • Regents Policy on Faculty Tenure • Procedures for Reviewing Candidates for Tenure and/or Promotion: Tenure-Track and Tenured Faculty

19. Faculty Tenure • Describes criteria for tenure at the university level • Describes mandatory annual review of probationary faculty • Describes the overall process for tenure and promotion to associate professor • Describes the criteria for promotion to full professor

20. Faculty Tenure • Describes the procedures for due process for denial of tenure and/or promotion • Describes post-tenure review process

21. Procedures Document • Provides specific guidelines for carrying out the provisions of Faculty Tenure, such as: • voting procedures • department & collegiate review • promotion to associate and full professor

22. What is tenure? • Indefinite employment at the University • Job security • Key personnel decision with long-term financial consequences • Merit award • Protection of academic freedom

23. Where is tenure held? • At the university level • Not in departments or colleges

24. P & T Involves Everyone • Assistant professors (called probationary faculty) are evaluated. • Associate and full professors evaluate assistant professors. • Full professors evaluate associate professors. • Tenured faculty evaluate each other.

25. P & T Process is Open • Candidates being reviewed can and do see everything in their files. • Annual reviews • Actual promotion and tenure process in a decision or promotion year

26. Faculty Tenure • Revised in 2006-2007 • Approved by the Board of Regents in June, 2007. • Applies to all faculty hired after June 7, 2007.

27. Timeline of the Tenure Process: Probationary Faculty • Annual reviews for 6 years- internal reviews • Decision year – typically 6th year- internal review- external review • Several colleges have extended the probationary period longer than 6 years.

28. Timeline of the Tenure Process: Probationary Faculty • Tenure decision may be made at any time. • A decision to terminate the appointment can be made at anytime.

29. Annual Review • Tenured faculty review curriculum vitae, teaching, and scholarship of untenured faculty. • Annual conference with chair or head • Completion of Form 12 Appraisals of Probationary Faculty • Sent to Dean and the Provost

30. Section 5.5 of Faculty Tenure:Stop the Tenure Clock • Extension of probationary service is allowed for one year at the request of the probationary faculty:- on the occasion of the birth of that faculty member’s child or adoptive/foster placement of a child with that faculty member

31. Section 5.5 of Faculty Tenure • Extension of probationary service is allowed for one year at the request of the probationary faculty:- when the faculty member is a major caregiver for a family member who has an extended serious illness, injury, or debilitating condition (can use this no more than 2 times)

32. Section 5.5 of Faculty Tenure • Extension of probationary service is allowed for one year at the request of the probationary faculty: - When the faculty member has an extended serious illness, injury, or debilitating condition.

33. Stopping the Tenure Clock • Form provided and available on line • Goes from the department to the collegiate dean to the Provost’s office • Available for both female and male faculty

34. Criteria for Tenure • Section 7.11 of Faculty Tenure- general statement of criteria for the entire university • Section 7.12 of Faculty Tenure- refers to the departmental criteria for tenure and promotion in a department of unit

35. Section 7.11 of Faculty Tenure What the University of Minnesota seeks above all in its faculty members is intellectual distinction and academic integrity. The basis for awarding indefinite tenure to the candidates possessing these qualities is the determination that each has established and is likely to continue to develop a distinguished record of academic achievement that is the foundation for a national or international reputation or both.

36. Section 7.11 of Faculty Tenure This determination is reached through a qualitative evaluation of the candidate’s record of scholarly research or other creative work, teaching, and service. The relative importance of these criteria may vary in different academic units, but each of the criteria must be considered in every decision. Demonstrated scholarly or other creative achievement and teaching effectiveness must be given primary emphasis; service alone cannot qualify the candidate for tenure.

37. Section 7.11 of Faculty Tenure Interdisciplinary work, public engagement, international activities and initiatives, attention to questions of diversity, technology transfer, and other special kinds of professional activity by the candidate should be considered when applicable. The awarding of indefinite tenure presupposes that the candidate’s record shows strong promise of his or her achieving promotion to professor.

38. 7.12 Statements • Department statement of criteria for promotion and tenure • Must be shown to new faculty according to the tenure policy • Should reflect the values of the faculty for promotions and conferral of indefinite tenure

39. 7.12 Statements • All 7.12 statements are currently under review by the University. • May have the choice to be evaluated with new 7.12 statements or the old 7.12 statements if the new one is still pending. • If a new 7.12 has been approved, that is the document for evaluation.

40. Specific Criteria for Tenure • Teaching • Research • Service • Greatest emphasis on first two

41. Teaching Effectiveness • Evaluated in a variety of ways- student ratings of teaching- peer observation and evaluation- letters from students- teaching awards- curricular development- syllabi

42. Professional Distinction in Research and Scholarship • Peer-reviewed publications • Books or book chapters • Scholarly presentations • Evidence of impact (citation index) • External funding from grants • National and international venues for artistic work

43. Outstanding Discipline-Related Service • Professional association/offices and committees • Editorial boards of journals

44. Other Service • University committees • Departmental committees • External community service • Faculty advisor • Public Engagement

45. Record Keeping • Keep track of all scholarly, teaching and service activities, including independent study experiences. • Prepare any materials clearly for a wide audience of readers.

46. Decision Year for Promotion and/or Tenure • Prepare a formal and extensive dossier. • Both for promotion to associate professor and promotion to full professor.

47. Components of the Dossier • Curriculum Vitae • Teaching narrative • Research narrative • Service summary • External letters • Teaching evaluations

48. Components of the Dossier • Copies of all Form 12’s (Annual Reviews) • Departmental evaluation • Chair’s/Head’s evaluation • Collegiate P & T Committee • Letter from dean

49. Promotion and/or Tenure Dossier • Evaluated in your home department • Evaluated at the level of your college • Evaluated in the Provost’s office • Many readers, not all in your discipline, but experienced scholars

50. Promotion from Associate to Full Professor • No annual or regular review process mandated • For faculty who are full professors at UM, average length of time as an associate professor is 8 years. • New change in the Faculty Tenure policy (Section 9.2) describes the Criteria for Promotion to Professor.