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Dec 17, 2024
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POLICY 4.10.4 - Qualifications for Promotion in Rank and Career Faculty Contract
For promotion in rank or a career faculty contract, all full-time faculty members must meet the minimum expectations outlined below. However, due to many factors including specialized accreditation, professional standards and graduate faculty status, individual schools and/or divisions may have standards for teaching, scholarship, service and/or professionalism that exceed the requirements of the university promotion and/or a career faculty contract. Therefore, schools and divisions are encouraged to create their own internal guidelines or be explicit that they will be using the University guidelines. The university FEC will assure that university-wide standards are appropriately evaluated for all candidates. In places where school or division standards exceed those of the university, the university FEC will defer to the stricter standard.
At a minimum, the following qualifications must be met for promotion:
- Assistant Professor—must meet the expectations for promotion to Assistant Professor and exceed expectations in at least one of the three primary categories of evaluation: teaching, scholarship, and service; hold the terminal degree or professional equivalent as acknowledged by appropriate accrediting agencies.
- Associate Professor—must meet the expectations for promotion to Associate Professor and exceed expectations in at least one of the three primary categories of evaluation: teaching, scholarship and service; hold the terminal degree or professional equivalent as acknowledged by appropriate accrediting agencies; and, have served at least five years as an assistant professor.
- Professor—must meet the expectations for promotion to Professor and exceed expectations in at least two of the three primary categories of evaluation: teaching, scholarship and service; hold the terminal degree or professional equivalent as acknowledged by appropriate accrediting agencies; and have served at least five years as an associate professor.
- Career Faculty Contract— must meet the expectations and hold the rank of assistant professor or higher.
Faculty at all levels should also model professional behavior (Section 4.12.3 ).
Expectations of faculty professionalism include:
- Conduct themselves in accordance with the university’s Code of Ethics, any codes of conduct of their school or division, and any codes of conduct of the professional association expected of their position at the university
- Demonstrate respect for the faculty, staff, students, patients, clients and other members of the university community
- Demonstrate appropriate behaviors and actions in matters involving privileged relationships, confidentiality and privacy
- Demonstrate commitment to academic freedom, a culture of diversity, open inquiry and discourse
- Demonstrate fairness in the exercise of the authority given their position at the university
- Deal with conflict of interest through disclosure, third-party monitoring or by declining to participate, as appropriate
- Demonstrate commitment to the highest standards of academic integrity in their own scholarship and, given the standards expressed in the university’s Honor Code, in the scholarship of their students
- Consistently and satisfactorily meet the obligations commensurate with their position at the university
- Conduct themselves in an appropriate manner when away from the institution and representing the university
Revision Dates: (Amended by Faculty Senate on Sept. 18, 2009; Approved by Academic Cabinet on Jan. 4, 2010)
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