1. Telling your story: the promotion dossier Cathy Jordan, Ph.D., LP Director - Children, Youth and Family Consortium Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology

2. What is a dossier? A collection of materials that allows you to communicate your unique story and identity, in your case, as a member of Extension A method for demonstrating how you meet the promotion criteria specific to your unit

3. Whether a printed packet, or sections submitted electronically, there are typical key elements that offer you the opportunity to tell your story The curriculum vita (c.v.) Essays addressing each promotion criteria

4. The c.v. (the focus of today) A structured record of your credentials and accomplishments A way to tell your story in bullets A way to illustrate how you meet promotion criteria

5. How to create a c.v. There is no one correct way My template is one example, one I thought adequately addressed the Extension criteria and suggested c.v. content in Extension’s Policies and Procedures You also have my c.v. as well as Sara Croymans’, as somewhat different examples

6. Sections Broad areas to include: Personal data and contact info Education Employment Professional Growth and Development Credit courses, conferences and trainings attended, staff development, certifications Honors and Awards

7. Scholarly Activities Extension Teaching and program development Presentations - what do you speak about, to whom? Did you compete to be able to present (peer review)? Or did people know of your reputation and invite you? Did you play a lead role? Intramural Extramural Other Educational Materials

8. Scholarly Activities con’t Grants awarded (in a sense this is like peer review) Publications (journals, newsletters, etc.) Note when peer reviewed, when invited, did you collaborate across institutions or include a community member?

9. Service To your profession (organizing conference, holding an office, peer reviewer) To the University (committees. Chair?) To the College (committees. Chair?) To the Capacity Area? To the community

10. Tips Be creative in organization, language, headings, etc. so that your strengths and identity are highlighted. Things to draw attention to: leadership role, engagement, professional distinction, peer review. Use symbols or special heading language to denote these things

11. Use subheadings that make it easy to find the activities related to promotion criteria. Use subheadings indicating peer-reviewed activities as these are weighted more heavily. Use annotations to describe additional information like your role, if you had a leadership role, the impact of the activity, the financial success, the reputation built Provide links if materials or more info available on the web

12. Highlight activities related to your passion, what you want to be known for, the niche you want to create. Use a subheading about this and briefly list activities that relate, regardless of whether they also fall in another heading as well.

13. Keep files relevant to the promotion criteria It takes time to keep your vita up to date. When you don’t have time, slip a reminder note into your files. Add the filed items at critical times like annual review.

14. Engaged Scholarship Scholarship = creative intellectual work that contributes significantly to knowledge in he field and has impact, is communicated and valued and is reviewed by peers Engagement does not mean “not scholarly” Important to create scholarship out of your work in communities Ideally the scholarship would be created with community partners

15. Important to show that this scholarship is rigorous The work has clear goals You are adequately prepared You used appropriate methods that combine rigor and engagement, or use engagement to enhance rigor You use feedback about the work to improve it