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

General Topics  Introduction  Tenure Code Revisions of 7.12 Statements New 9.2 Statement  Long-Term Planning  Dossier Preparation

Introduction  Life course of P & T  Associate Professor status

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

Current Guiding Documents  Regents Policy: Faculty Tenure humanresources/FacultyTenure.pdf  Procedures for Reviewing Candidates for Tenure and/or Promotion: Tenure- Track and Tenured Faculty

Faculty Tenure  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

Faculty Tenure  Describes the procedures for due process for denial of tenure and/or promotion  Describes post-tenure review process (7a)  Section 9 describes the appointment of faculty with indefinite tenure and promotion to full professor.

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.

Section 9.2 of the Tenure Code  New subsection of 9.2 is in the handout.

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

Probationary Period Associate Professor Tenure Faculty Life Course

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

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

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

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)

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.

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.

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.

Perceived Impediments  Service load  Teaching focus  Research burnout post tenure

Research Incentives  Semester leaves  Sabbaticals

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

Dossier Preparation  Varies by discipline and college  Follow conventions of your area  Personal statements are important Research narrative Teaching narrative  Publication/creative venues are important

Curriculum Vitae  Accuracy – always describe everything with absolute honesty  Consistency – make sure that all dates agree and all descriptions agree  Clarity – remember that the dossier is read by many outside your discipline

Contact Information Arlene Carney Vice Provost for Faculty & Academic Affairs

Contact Information Karen Zentner Bacig Associate to the Vice Provost Robin Matross Helms Coordinator of Faculty Awards

Provost’s Web Page faculty/index.html

Connie Wanberg Carlson School of Management  Promoted from Assistant to Associate in May, 2000  Promoted from Associate to Full in May, 2005

Journey from Associate to Full  Academia is full of opportunity: Make choices wisely Help your teaching? Help your research? Something you want to do personally? Groom yourself for administrative role? Service becomes more important but pace yourself.  Ask for portfolio from successful (recent) person who went through process in your department.  Ask for feedback  Circulate in press articles to list.

Rhythms of Academic Life (Sage)  Assistant (Goal to be excellent, to survive)  Associate (Goal to be internationally known, to have a real impact)  Full Opportunity to ask and pursue big questions, focus on impact Mentoring Running the university Taking teaching to another level

Burnout  Real phenomenon  Do new things  Challenge yourself  Collaborate with new people  Attend a new conference  Talk to others about it Book: Renewing Research Practice (Stanford Business Books)