Promotion to Full Professor

1. Promotion to Full Professor Arlene Carney Vice Provost for Faculty & Academic Affairs

2. General Topics • Introduction • Tenure Code • Proposed New 7.11 Statement • Revisions of 7.12 Statements • Proposed New 9.2 Statement • Long-Term Planning • Dossier Preparation

3. Introduction • Life course of P & T • Associate Professor status • Discussion

4. Life Course of P & T • Six-year probationary period with one grace year for assistant professors • According to Section 5.5 of the Tenure Code, probationary faculty can stop the tenure clock. • Stated explicitly in the Tenure Code

5. Life Course of P & T • Few departmental 7.12 statements make statements about the expectation to achieve the rank of professor. • Tenure Code is silent on this topic. • Criteria for promotion to professor are often brief and non-explicit.

6. Guiding Documents • Faculty Tenure Codehttp://www1.umn.edu/regents/policies/humanresources/FacultyTenure.pdf • Procedures for Reviewing the Performance of Probationary Faculty http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/policies/performance/probfacreview.html

7. Faculty Tenure Code • 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

8. Faculty Tenure Code • Describes the procedures for due process for denial of tenure and/or promotion • Describes post-tenure review process • Section 9 describes the appointment of faculty with indefinite tenure.

9. Section 7.11 • General criteria for promotion and for conferral of indefinite tenure • Handout has old 7.11 and latest draft of 7.11 from the Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee

10. Section 7.12 of the Tenure Code • Department statement of criteria for promotion and tenure • Must be shown to new faculty according to the tenure code • Should reflect the values of the faculty for promotions and conferral of indefinite tenure

11. Promotion from Associate to Full Professor • Usually the shortest part of the 7.12 statement. • Most frequent criterion – a national or international reputation. • Since we have no system of reviews for associate professors, the path to promotion is not clear.

12. Section 9.2 of the Tenure Code • Handout has the old language of the current section 9 – this is proposed as new subsection 9.1. • New subsection of 9.2 is in the handout.

13. 9.2 and Post-Tenure Review • One can remain an associate professor without post-tenure review. • Do need to achieve a higher level of performance to become a professor

14. Faculty Life Course Associate Professor Tenure Probationary Period

15. Faculty Life Course Full Professor Associate Professor Tenure Minimum Standards For Tenure Maintenance Probationary Period

16. Faculty Life Course Full Professor Associate Professor Tenure Post-tenure Review Probationary Period

17. Current Status of Associate Professors at Minnesota • Fall of 2005 – 38% of associate professors on the Twin Cities campus had been at that rank for 8 years or more. • Fall of 2005 – looked at full professors who spent their careers at UMTC • Average time as an associate professor was 7.9 years

18. Midlife Faculty • Baldwin et al. (2005) described stages • Probationary period is clearly demarcated (early life < 39 yrs old) • Early midlife (40-49) • Late midlife (50-59) • Late faculty life ( 60 or older)

19. Midlife Faculty • Spend more time on teaching and administration in late midlife and late life than other groups. • Early midlife faculty have highest percentage of publications and presentations, with late midlife faculty coming in next.

20. Midlife Faculty • More early midlife faculty have higher rates of dissatisfaction than other groups. • Time of reassessment and redirection • Some report of research productivity going down.

21. Criteria for Professor • National and/or international reputation. • Varies by campus and by unit. • Need for a long-term plan and short-term objectives to build the reputation is consistent across campuses and units.

22. Perceived Impediments • Service load • Teaching focus • Research burnout post tenure

23. Effort Distribution

24. Research Incentives • Semester leaves • Sabbaticals

25. Continued Needs • Mentoring • Peer mentoring • Senior faculty member • Self-imposed goal for promotion • Decision about balance of one’s effort • Ways and means to revitalize one’s scholarly interests

26. Contact Information Arlene CarneyVice Provost for Faculty & Academic Affairscarne005@umn.edu612-624-9545

27. Contact Information Karen Zentner Bacig Assistant to the Vice Provost kbacig@umn.edu Robin Matross Helms Coordinator of Faculty Awards rmhelms@umn.edu

28. Provost’s Web Site http://www.academic.umn.edu/provost/faculty