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Preparing a (great) P&T Dossier

Get essential tips and strategies to prepare a successful Promotion and Tenure dossier. Learn how to align your teaching philosophy, showcase accomplishments, gather peer evaluations, contextualize your efforts, and work effectively with mentors. Start early and continually update your dossier to achieve excellence.

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Preparing a (great) P&T Dossier

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  1. Preparing a (great) P&T Dossier Neelam C. Poudyal Associate Professor UTIA-FWF Presentation prepared for the Annual UTIA P&T Workshop June 19, 2018

  2. My situation • 3.5 years of tenure track work @UGA • Going up early @UTIA • 50/50 Research-Teaching Appointment • Suggestions presented in this file are all based on • the feedbacks and suggestions I received from my mentors, departmental and UTIA P&T committee, and • my familiarity and experience with other successful dossiers

  3. General strategy • Start early • understand your appointment & expectations • review copies of good examples • Make it a continual process • keep on adding/reviewing • Seek input/feedback • mentor, colleagues, recently tenured

  4. Specific tips: Make sure contents line up • Consistency • teaching philosophy • teaching methods, style • effectiveness • presentation of evaluations

  5. Specific tips: Count everything that matter • Make sure numbers add up • class size,student advised etc. • Remember to include your extra contributions in teaching • guest lecturing, freshmen seminars • Highlight any non-traditional activities • service learning, experiential learning

  6. Specific tips: Include peer evaluation • Add peer-evaluation in your dossier • Issues with online eval. data • invite more than just your mentor • invite them early & often • standard forms (appendix) • present a summary paragraph

  7. Specific tips: Contextualize your effort • Show relevance with UTIA Mission/Excellence • how your teaching contributes to achieve this mission? • how your accomplishment relate with expectations?

  8. Specific tips: pinpoint your progress • Discuss some course-specific examples of improvements or developments

  9. Specific tips: make it easy for them • Help them understand your accomplishments • awards, publications (scope, significance) • fellowships, training, grants (outcomes)

  10. Specific tips: Delineate boundaries • Accomplishment at UTIA and other institutions • show clear distinction

  11. Specific tips: Work with your mentors • Roundtable with your mentors • Major issues (e.g. Contents, framing) • Minor issues (e.g. editorial) • A closed room with projector would be nice

  12. General strategy • Start early • understand your appointment & expectations • review copies of good examples • Make it a continual process • keep on adding/reviewing • Seek input/feedback • mentor, colleagues

  13. Thank you Presentation prepared for the Annual UTIA P&T Workshop June 19, 2018

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