Are You Ready for Promotion?
The Office of Faculty Affairs recommends three steps to determine if you are ready for promotion:
- Take stock of your position.
- Update the materials for your basic promotion file.
- Seek advice from senior & experienced faculty.
If you are ready for promotion, then make the case to your department chair. If you are not ready for promotion, then make a plan to address deficiencies.
See below for more details of each of these steps.
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Take Stock of Your Position
What is your current position?
Rank? Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor
Track? Tenure track or Non-Tenure track
Pathway? Unmodified ("traditional"), Clinical or Research
What are the expectations for you?
- Review your letter of appointment
- Review any subsequent evaluations (annual performance review, mini-tenure review
Update your basic promotion file
- curriculum vitae (see here for more information)
- teaching evaluations (see here for more information)
Seek advice
From individuals who are familiar with the process and the criteria for promotion:
- DPAC Chair
- Senior Faculty Mentor (e.g., Academic Vice Chair)
- Faculty Advancement Department Liaison (FADL) Representative
- Office of Faculty Affairs faculty and staff
Question: “Do I meet the criteria for promotion? If not, what’s missing?”
If you’re not ready for promotion . . .
Do you need to?
- set a timeline for scholarship
- expand & enhance visibility (develop a local, regional or national reputation)
— internal presentations (Grand Rounds etc)
— national presentations
— national committee service
— networking
- enhance your teaching abilities and/or request additional teaching
- participate in faculty development workshops & seminars
- gain communication skills: practice “graceful self-promotion”
- enhance your writing skills
- obtain mentoring
Make a plan to address deficiencies. Set goals and deadlines. Review progress periodically.