Common use of Evaluation Criteria: Tenure-track and Tenured Faculty Clause in Contracts

Evaluation Criteria: Tenure-track and Tenured Faculty. Instructional faculty holding the ranks of Instructor, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor shall be evaluated for reappointment, promotion and/or tenure based upon the candidate’s record of performance in the areas of teaching, advising, scholarship/research/ creative work and service. Each candidate is expected to be engaged in a program of work that is sound and productive and that can be expected to continue to develop throughout his or her professional career, consistent with the needs and mission of the University. In all instances, excellent intellectual attainment, in accordance with the criteria set forth below, is the standard for reappointment, promotion and/or tenure. Insistence upon this standard for continuing members of the faculty is necessary for the maintenance of quality of the University as an institution dedicated to the discovery, preservation and transmission of knowledge. The University is committed to longstanding traditions of scholarship as well as evolving perspectives on scholarship. The University further recognizes that the role of academia is not static, and that methodologies, topics of interest, and boundaries within and between disciplines change over time. The University will continue to support scholars in all of these traditions.

Evaluation Criteria: Tenure-track and Tenured Faculty. Instructional faculty holding the ranks of Instructor, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor shall be evaluated for reappointment, promotion and/or tenure based upon the candidate’s record of performance in the areas of teaching, advising, scholarship/research/ creative work and service. Each candidate is expected to be engaged in a program of work that is sound and productive and that can be expected to continue to develop throughout his or her professional career, consistent with the needs and mission of the University. In all instances, excellent intellectual attainment, in accordance with the criteria set forth below, is the standard for reappointment, promotion and/or tenure. Insistence upon this standard for continuing members of the faculty is necessary for the maintenance of quality of the University as an institution dedicated to the discovery, preservation and transmission of knowledge. The University is committed to longstanding traditions of scholarship as well as evolving perspectives per- spectives on scholarship. The University further recognizes that the role of academia is not static, and that methodologies, topics of interest, and boundaries within and between disciplines change over time. The University will continue to support scholars in all of these traditions.