Provost promotion resources
A page within Academic Affairs
Eligible candidates should carefully review the official promotion guidelines available through the Human Resources website.
- Faculty promotion guidelines (KB) (PDF Version)
- Instructional Academic Staff (IAS) promotion guidelines.
In addition, the materials below provide additional guidance for successful promotion portfolios.
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- Example portfolios - Examples of successful promotion files for both faculty and IAS members.
- Promotion Information Session Presentations:
- Teaching effectiveness measures worksheet - Joint Promotion Committee members use as an aid in reviewing promotion files. The worksheet reflects a spectrum of potential evidence rather than a list of required activities. Also, please see the Teaching Effectiveness Worksheet with Resources
- A Guide to Assessment for Promotion - Our purposes in creating this Guide are to advocate for assessment activities that facilitate student success, and to describe how you can present such assessment practices to a varied audience of evaluators during the promotion committee process.
- Writing about teaching - Materials regarding writing syllabi with learning outcomes, assessment reports, and teaching philosophies.
- Service Appraisal Worksheet used by JPC to track service contributions outlined in candidate portfolios.
- Template for documenting direct assessment and examples of well-documented direct assessments of student learning outcomes
- CATL template to help effectively document aggregated direct assessment of student learning outcomes
- Chedister (MTH) - Use of Exit Ticket for Formative Assessment in MTH 136 Math for Elementary Teachers II
- Dale (POL) - Direct Assessment for POL 251 Political Theory
- Deason (PSY) - Direct Assessment PSY318 over time
- Haried (IS) - Assessment of Problem Solving SLO in the Information Systems Major
- Hawkes (ART) - Sample Assignments and Assessment Documents
- Graham (MKT) - Direct Assessment for MKT 365, Direct Assessment for MKT 386
- Keefe (GCL) - Direct Assessment of student learning outcomes in FRE 101
- Mohlenhoff-Baggett (ENG) - Direct Assessment ENG200
- Nicodemus (ARC) - Direct Assessment ARC455
- Parker (ENG) - Direct Assessment ENG481 - Literature and Culture
- Additional Assessment Resources
- IAS Specific Promotion Resources
- Tips from IAS Promotion Committee Member – A senior lecturer and IAS committee member provides excellent tips for preparing the portfolio.
- IAS Title Listing (reflects TTC changes)
- IAS Promotion Explainer
- IAS Promotion Information Session
- IAS Promotion Committee: Recommendations for Candidate Materials
- IAS Information Session Handout
- IAS Promotion Process Video
- Faculty Specific Promotion Resources
- Tips from JPC Members - The tips at this link have been gleaned from multiple information sessions over the past several semesters.
- Example department PRT letters of support. [PRT Letter-Docktor (PHY)] [PRT Letter - Paudel (FIN)] [PRT Letter-Shonk (HIS)] [PRT Letter-Baumann (MTH/STAT)]
- Examples of effective (~250 word) narrative summaries/abstracts Evans (RMTR), Hardy (HIS), Chen (MATH)