Criteria
The candidate’s scholarly activities will be evaluated based on the quality and quantity in each discipline.
1. Excellence in research and creative activity/scholarship including but not limited to:
- Receipt of competitive research funds
- Peer-reviewed publications
- Published books or chapter(s) in books with International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs)
- Organizing workshops at professional meetings/conferences within the field of expertise
- Act as chair, session chair at research conference
- Juried presentations/workshops
- Invitations to present papers/performances at national, international professional meetings/conferences
- Presentations of papers, panels, workshops at professional meetings/conferences
- Proposals submitted for new research/creative ideas/methods/pathways
- Involvement in student research activities
- Creative activities such as exhibits and artistic performances
2. Excellence in teaching including but not limited to:
- Developing teaching-related publications and presentations
- Demonstrating efforts to keep current in pedagogy
- Demonstrating efforts to keep current in the area of expertise
- Excellent student evaluation
- Involvement in student’s presentation, publication, and career development
- Developing new curricula
3. Excellence in service/university citizenship including but not limited to:
- Active involvement in campus events/affair
- Serving the committees at the campus, the department and the university levels
- Involvement in student recruitment and retention
- Outreaches for the campus, the department and the university
- Enhance the recognition of Kent State University at East Liverpool
- Reviewing journal articles, books, book chapters, and funding proposals
- Serving as Editor/editorial board
4. Self-evaluation and peer-evaluation:
- A faculty’s performance in each category—research/creative activity/scholarship, teaching, and service/university citizenship—can be evaluated using a four-rank scale of excellent, significant, satisfactory, and deficient.
- The candidate may self-assign rank scale in each category and provides brief explanation in the application.
- Each tenured and tenure track faculty member can assign the candidate’s rank scale in each category.
- The FC chair will summary the result from self-assign and peer-evaluation for each candidate and report the result to the Dean and Chief Administrative Officer.