1. Heather Brod, Executive Director of Faculty Affairs and FAME
Faculty Promotion
Heather Brod, Executive Director of Faculty Affairs and FAME

2. Performance
Impact
Promotion

3. What do you want to be known for?
The Journey
Your career should be predicated on what you love to do, promotion will follow
What do you want to be known for?

4. Primary Tracks
Tenure Track: Do: produce new knowledge via NIH-funded bench and translational research, disseminate results thru papers & presentations, teach/mentor, participate in and lead committees
Impact: national community of scholars
Research Track: Do: produce new knowledge via NIH-funded bench and translational research, disseminate results thru papers & presentations
Clinical Track: Do: leverage clinical service to produce new knowledge, educate learners and/or improve delivery of patient care

5. Clinical track pathways
Clinician Scholar: Do: produce new knowledge via clinical research, disseminate results thru papers & presentations
Impact: national community of scholars
Clinician Educator: Do: educate learners and develop educational paradigms, disseminate outcomes & techniques thru papers, presentations, leadership
Impact: learners, national community of educators
Clinical Excellence: Do: improve practice via implementation or application of new techniques or approaches to clinical care, quality, safety, operations, disseminate outcomes & techniques thru presentations, word of mouth, leadership
Impact: patients, hospital/clinic leadership, trainees, community

6. Strategies to Create Impact
Collaborate: seek out experts in your field, create scholarship with residents and postdocs, leverage your niche to be middle author on collaborative publications
Disseminate: write and talk about your work, promote your results
Develop reputation: build relationships and network – tell people how your work can benefit them, go to conferences, use the poster sessions to get to know senior faculty from other schools (these become external evaluators), serve on national committees

7. Develop Your Plan Review criteria in departmental P&T document
Guidelines, not mandate
Create 5 Year Individual Development Plan with concrete metrics
Seek help from mentor & division director
Get their input into your plan
Ask for opportunities that will help you develop and create impact

8. How Will You Know When You’ve Arrived?
Know the P&T criteria and how they apply to your career
Check-in
Don’t wait until you’ve achieved every item of promotion criteria, get feedback, don’t make assumptions
Ask for formative feedback from division director during annual review

9. Levels of Review Peer Evaluation is Foundation of Promotion Process
Department
Review of the eligible faculty
Department chair evaluation
College
Review by the College Committee
Dean evaluation
University
Review by the University Committee (select circumstances)
Provost evaluation

10. Candidate responsibilities
Read departmental promotion criteria
Create core dossier using Research-in-View
Suggest external evaluators
Download and gather teaching and peer evaluations, provide to department

11. Department Responsibilities
Set deadlines
Generate list of external evaluators and solicit letters
Gather last 5 years of annual evaluations
Produce teaching eval summaries and reports
Fill out forms
Conduct voting, produce letters of evaluation
Construct entire packet, transmit to the college

12. may differ from those presented here
Timing
*Please consult with your department for internal deadlines that
may differ from those presented here
May 2017
College Dean notifies Department Chairs of their faculty’s mandatory reviews for tenure, reappointment, 4th and 8th year tenure track reviews
May 1 – June 30*
Non-mandatory candidates request promotion and/or tenure consideration from Departments
June 1 – August 30*
Departments solicit external evaluations and candidates work on dossiers
June 1 – September 30*
Candidates submit dossiers to Department Promotion & Tenure Committee
July 1 –
November 3, 2017
Departments submit complete dossiers to College Office of Academic Affairs. Incomplete dossiers will be returned.
November – February
College Promotion & Tenure Committee meetings occur
Dean notifies candidates of College decision
February 16, 2018
College submits dossiers to Provost
February – April
University Promotion & Tenure Committee meetings occur
April – May
Provost notifies College of University decision and submits recommendation to the Board of Trustees
June 8, 2018
Board of Trustees final approval, Promotions become official
September 1, 2018
Pay increase implemented