Your Career as a Student Advocate Promotion and Tenure Steven Specter, PhD University of South Florida College of Medicine Tampa, FL

Promotion and Tenure

What does your institution require? Path to promotion and/or tenure One pathway Tiered system with tracks Levels of review Department College University Rank at time of appointment Assistant Professor Associate Professor Professor

Tenure What is tenure? Associated with more senior job titles such as Professor and Associate Professor Promotion to a tenured position requires a strong record of published research, teaching and administrative service, with the strongest emphasis on research in universities. Academic tenure is primarily intended to guarantee the right to academic freedom The intent of tenure is to allow original ideas to be more likely to arise Tenure also has the effect of helping to ensure the integrity of the grading system. Universities also have economic rationales for adopting tenure systems. First, job security

Tenure Does your institution have it? Are there time limitations? How important is Tenure? Is it important to you? Are you maintaining a faculty presence?

What does your institution require? Faculty Responsibilities

What does your institution require? Faculty Responsibilities When a faculty member is notified by his/her department chair or appropriate department administrator that they need to participate in the pre-tenure process, the faculty member will prepare a portfolio containing the following information: A brief self-evaluation of progress Copies of Assigned Faculty Duties for the entire tenure earning period Copies of Annual Evaluations that include performance in teaching, research and scholarly activity and service Copies of student/peer evaluations of teaching Examples of teaching materials and scholarship Current CV

What does your institution require? Letters of review/recommendation What does the institution require? Who is responsible for letter writer recommendations? Who sends out the invitations? Who knows you and your work? Internal and external letters

What does your institution require? Department APT Committee Department Chair/Division Chief College APT Committee Dean, College of Medicine 2011 Timetable

What does your institution require? Excellence in: Research or Scholarly Achievement Teaching Service Within Institution Externally Administration

Research or Scholarly Achievement Funded research Publications in peer-reviewed journals Textbooks Presentations Distribution of information Colleagues Creative Innovations Patents Software/Hardware

Teaching Excellence Evaluations Textbooks Awards Educational Leadership Colleagues

Service/Administration Institution Committees External Committees/Boards National Leadership Publications Colleagues