Common use of Guidelines for assessment Clause in Contracts

Guidelines for assessment. (a) Candidates for tenure and promotion will be assessed using the Standards for Tenure and Promotion for Faculty under the NU/NUFA Collective Agreement as approved by the University and the Association through the JCAA. The Standards and this Article (25.14) serve as guides to evaluators of what is to be expected of candidates for tenure and promotion; they are not a rigid set of rules to be applied mechanically. (b) The diversity of academic and professional disciplines at Nipissing University make inequitable if not impractical any single evaluation scheme for promotions. Evaluators must be flexible in their assessment and weighting of the candidate’s accomplishments, especially for promotions to the rank of Associate Professor. This includes acknowledging diverse career paths, ways of knowing, and forms of communicating knowledge. Greater conformity to a norm is expected for promotions to Professor. (c) In order to meet expectations in the category of research, scholarly and/or creative activities, candidates for tenure must have developed a research program that goes beyond the requirements for the terminal degree.

Guidelines for assessment. ‌ (a) Candidates for tenure and promotion will be assessed using the Standards for Tenure and Promotion for Faculty under the NU/NUFA Collective Agreement as approved by the University and the Association through the JCAA. The Standards and this Article (25.14) serve as guides to evaluators of what is to be expected of candidates for tenure and promotion; they are not a rigid set of rules to be applied mechanically. (b) The diversity of academic and professional disciplines at Nipissing University make inequitable if not impractical any single evaluation scheme for promotions. Evaluators must be flexible in their assessment and weighting of the candidate’s accomplishments, especially for promotions to the rank of Associate Professor. This includes acknowledging diverse career paths, ways of knowing, and forms of communicating knowledge. Greater conformity to a norm is expected for promotions to Professor. (c) In order to meet expectations in the category of research, scholarly and/or creative activities, candidates for tenure must have developed a research program that goes beyond the requirements for the terminal degree.