Tenure in the College of Arts & Sciences Thoughts and Tips for Women in the Sciences

Who decides? YOU Your Record Your Dossier Your Department Special Departmental Committee Departmental Faculty as a whole Chair College Council Advisory to the Dean

RESEARCH TEACHING SERVICE

RESEARCH High quality Independent Outside grant support Steady and increasing output Significance of work to your field CV PERSONAL STATEMENT Your research goals How each paper and ongoing project relates to these goals The significance of your work in layman terms

TEACHING UNDERGRADUATE Course evaluations Student Peer review (faculty) Undergraduate research mentoring GRADUATE Research students in your lab Graduate Committees PERSONAL STATEMENT Teaching philosophy Problems and how you are solving them

SERVICE Departmental Committees College/University Committees Professional Societies National Grant Review Panels Outreach to community Don’t do too much until you get your research and teaching under control

LETTERS OF EVALUATION Evaluators chosen by Chair from lists suggested by you and by the Departmental review committee and other senior faculty Minimum of 3 and maximum of 5 letters required AT LEAST 3 from persons with no substantial personal connection or professional collaboration with you Evaluators asked to provide the following information: 1) How and for how long he/she has known the candidate 2) The significance, independence, influence, and promise of the candidate’s scholarship (particularly that done since coming to UW) and the degree of national/international recognition 3) A comparison of the candidate’s accomplishments with leading scholars at a similar career stage