P&T Ideas

1. P&T Ideas Do These Make Sense?

2. #1 Normally a candidate must have served nine years before he/she is eligible for promotion to Full Professor. Therefore, he/she should be more effective as a teacher, should be more proficient as a scholar, and should be more productive in providing professional service than a more junior faculty member.

3. #2 Likewise, because a candidate for tenure normally applies in year six, he/she would be expected to have demonstrated the above traits to a greater degree than a candidate who had served only four years who was applying for promotion to Associate Professor.

4. #3 Using the guidelines for workload stated in the Faculty Handbook, about 80% of your time should be involved in teaching activities and 20% be devoted to scholarship and service. Therefore, credits toward promotion and tenure should accrue in roughly the same proportion.

5. #4 From the survey that you filled out last Spring and from what the P&T literature tells us, some activities should be awarded more credit than others. Consequently, a set of priorities should be formulated so that both the candidates and the evaluators have a mutual understanding of how to credit various activities.

6. #5 A Promotion and Tenure Prediction Instrument could be developed to allow you to track your progress toward promotion and/or tenure. It would generate a weighted score for Teaching Effectiveness, Scholarship, and Service for each rank. (To make things easy, it could be designed to require a predicted composite score of 100 for promotion and/or tenure.)

7. PTPI