1. Assistant Professor P&T Workshop Definition of Scholarship
WELCOME
Assistant Professor P&T Workshop
P&T Expectations &
Definition of Scholarship
April 9, 2018

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6. Promotion & Tenure Policy (Overhauled in 1999)
Key Principles:
Promotion & Tenure Policy
(Overhauled in 1999)
Influenced by Ernest Boyer’s
“Scholarship Reconsidered” (1990)
Our current Promotion and Tenure policy was implemented in A deliberate effort to bring a new vision to faculty work--to continue our focus on research, but also to support our missions in teaching and extension/outreach. To recognize a world in which collaboration and technology play new roles.

7. Comprehensive definition of “scholarship”
Boyer Hand Out:
Comprehensive definition of “scholarship”
Flexible definition of faculty roles & responsibilities
Encouragement of interdisciplinary & collaborative work
Transparent evaluation & feedback
Faculty member responsibility in documentation
Source: Boyer, 1990

8. At ISU scholarship described in Faculty Handbook:
creative, systematic, rational inquiry
honest, forthright application or exposition of conclusions drawn from that inquiry
builds on existing knowledge
employs critical analysis and judgment to enhance understanding

9. Key Principles: Promotion and Tenure Policy
Scholarship:
is umbrella under which research falls
research is just one form of scholarship
encompasses creative activities, teaching & extension/professional practice

10. Scholarship Teaching & Learning Research & Discovery Extension
& Professional
Practice
Research & Discovery

11. Scholarship . . . results in a product that is shared with others & is subject to review.

12. May be a:
Book
Journal article
Critical review
Annotated bibliography
Review of existing research on a topic
Speech synthesizing thinking on a topic

13. original materials such as software
May be:
original materials such as software
inventions on which patents are obtained
codes & standards
scholarly articles published in non-research based periodicals, newspapers & other publications
art exhibits by teacher-artists
musical concerts with original scores; novels, essays, short stories, poems

14. Faculty Handbook Section 5.2.2.2
Evidence that a significant portion of a faculty
member's scholarship has been documented (i.e., communicated to and validated by peers
beyond the university) is required of all.
Evidence of impact & quality
ISU has a innovative definition of scholarship, which allows us to take a lead among research universities in understanding that our role as faculty is not limited to a single mode, but usually includes a mixture of teaching, research, extension.
That is particularly true in Agriculture.
You will hear more detail about these ways of conducting scholarship from the panel members.
Part of the discussion today is to help you see what “products” count in this realm and how you can show the quality and impact of your work.
Listen to some key passages from the policy.

15. Position Responsibility Statement
PRS: Section
An individualized statement of your roles & responsibilities
Agreed to by faculty member & department chair
Where are you expected to expend your time & energy?
Where are you expected to excel?
PRS is central in making all of this work.
AG has a new standard system to make this clear to you, which comes from years of working within this system.
Over the past eight years, we have gotten used to a transparent system in which we clarify for each faculty member what s/he is expected to do.
This is particularly important at a university in which faculty take on a wide range of responsibilities, no where more so than in Agriculture.

16. Promotion to Associate Professor
Criteria:
Excellence in scholarship that establishes the individual as a significant contributor to the field or profession, with potential for national distinction
Effectiveness in areas of position responsibility
Satisfactory institutional service
Contributions of appropriate magnitude and quality & likelihood of sustained contributions to field, profession, university
Your PRS is directly linked to the criteria for promotion.
(this is what our faculty reported as not being clear to them. It’s because it varies from person to person, from discipline to discipline.)

17. Conducting a Faculty Life
Conducting a faculty life in this “flexible” realm:
Pursue important projects & ideas
Be conscious of building a coherent career
Keep looking ahead
Consult with your chair, your mentor, your colleagues (it’s your responsibility)

18. Your department & disciplinary peers
Who Will Be Evaluating?
Your department & disciplinary peers
9 full professors from other departments in CALS
Dean ( & Associate Deans) of college
Provost & President
Most important are your department peers--probationary review, annual reviews.
You will hear lots about “external “ reviews, but these your colleagues in the discipline. Provost Hoffman talked about “do people in the discipline listen to you”?
Consult with them about the basics of what a successful career in your discipline looks like: publications and journals, collaborations, funding, graduate students, outreach/extension, professional organizations, teaching, conferences, editing and professional service, institutional service .

19. Success
Be proactive
Communicate often
Take advantage of a system designed for your success

20. Evaluation Product
Digital Dossier
Tab 1: PRS, Factual Info Summary & CV
Tab 2: Portfolio Summary
Tab 3: Department Evaluations
Tab 4: College Evaluations
Tab 5: External Evaluations

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