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Planning for Promotion
Promotion and Tenure Resources for School of Medicine Faculty
Timetable for the Year of Consideration for
Promotion
Documentation of
Teaching for Promotion/Tenure (Educator's Portfolio)
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Planning for Promotion
Begin planning for promotion at the time of your
appointment to the faculty or promotion to the assistant or associate
professor level. Do not wait to begin planning until you receive a letter
that says you are eligible for consideration for promotion. Consider
attending a Promotion and Tenure Session sponsored by the Career
Development and Education Center.
At Appointment and Annually
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Meet with your department chair or designee to
determine expectations for the upcoming year: effort distribution,
activities, and outcomes by which you will be judged. Be sure you know
if you are expected to collect outcome data or if it will be provided to
you. These meetings should occur around February (before the budget and
contract renewal cycle).
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Determine if you strive for “outstanding” or
“competent” performance in education, research and other scholarly
activities, and service (e.g., clinical care, administration, committee
assignments). Write down your goals in each area for the next academic
year and for the longer term (3-5 years). Determine the parameters by
which you will assess accomplishment of them.
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Be sure your activities will allow you to meet the
expectations for promotion in an appropriate time period.
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Develop a calendar of activities you should
accomplish between now and when you will be eligible for promotion.
Modify annually and as needed.
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Begin developing your Educator’s
Portfolio at the time of appointment and update at least annually.
Use your Portfolio as a guide for reflective development of the
education component of your career. Consider attending an Educator’s
Portfolio session sponsored by the Career
Development and Education Center.
Continuously
- education activities (teaching, education-related committees,
curriculum development, etc.),
- clinical activities,
- committee assignments and other service to the institution.
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Save all documents relevant to quality or impact of
your teaching or clinical activities.
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If you are in the non-tenure track,
research/scholarly activity is probably not your primary activity.
However, research/scholarly activity is expected of all faculty members.
Look for ways you can engage in scholarship related to the activities in
which you spend most of your professional time (probably clinical care
or education). The document entitled, “Interpretation
of Promotion and Tenure Guidelines” should provide helpful
background.
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