Common use of Tenure Criteria and Materials for Faculty Members Clause in Contracts

Tenure Criteria and Materials for Faculty Members. (a) Tenure shall be granted to faculty on the basis of the following essential criteria: (i) achievement in scholarship, including research and creative professional work; (ii) effectiveness in teaching; and (iii) clear promise of future intellectual and professional development. (b) Clear promise of future intellectual and professional development must be affirmed for tenure to be awarded (c) Demonstrated excellence in one of scholarship (including research and creative or professional work) and teaching and clearly established competence in the other, form the second essential requirement for a positive judgment by the tenure committee. Only outstanding performance with respect to University service should be given any significant weight and, even then, only if there are no substantial reservations relating to the scholarship, teaching and future promise criteria. (d) The Xxxx shall be responsible for obtaining the following materials for inclusion in the Faculty Member’s dossier: (i) Student course evaluations, individual workload assignment letters, annual activity reports and annual performance reviews; (ii) Two (2) written references in respect of the Faculty Member’s teaching by colleagues who have observed the Faculty Member’s teaching who are nominated by the Faculty Member; and (iii) Four (4) written references in respect of the Faculty Member’s scholarship, including research and creative professional work, by specialists in the Faculty Member’s discipline who are external to the University, including at least one (1) specialist from the Faculty Member’s list of proposed referees; (iv) Written references in respect of the Faculty Member’s service by referees nominated by the Faculty Member, if the Faculty Member requests that such references be sought; and (v) The written review of the Internal Reading Committee which can include persons from the TST. (e) The Faculty Member shall be responsible for providing the following materials to the Xxxx for inclusion in the Faculty Member dossier: (i) An updated curriculum vitae together with copies of all written work and non-written work in appropriate form referred to therein; (ii) Unpublished work and work in progress that the Faculty Member wishes to include, with the understanding that such work shall not be disclosed in any way to those outside the Tenure Committee without the Faculty Member’s written consent; (iii) A statement describing achievements in teaching including innovations in teaching, contributions to curricular developments and mentoring of students; (iv) Representative teaching materials; (v) Representative theses and/or papers written by students who are supervised by the Faculty Member; (vi) A statement describing the direction in which the Faculty Member’s scholarship, including research and creative professional work, has taken, the Faculty Member’s work in progress and plans for future work; (vii) A statement describing contributions through service; (viii) A statement, where applicable, describing any personal and/or professional circumstances that affected the Faculty Member’s productivity; and (ix) Any other materials that the Faculty Member or the Tenure Committee would like to be included in the dossier.