Standards

Reappointment:  The candidate must provide evidence of ongoing progress toward strong performance in classroom instruction and advising.

Tenure: The candidate must provide evidence of a strong performance and commitment to continued high quality teaching and fulfillment of advising responsibilities. Evidence of mentoring students must be presented and when possible, involvement in master’s level theses/project advisement and/or doctoral dissertations.

Promotion to Associate Professor: The candidate must provide evidence of a strong performance in classroom instruction and fulfillment of advising responsibilities. Evidence of mentoring students must be presented and when possible, involvement in master’s level theses/project advisement and/or doctoral dissertations.

Promotion to Professor: The candidate must provide evidence of a strong performance and commitment to ongoing improvement in classroom instruction and fulfillment of advising responsibilities.  Evidence of mentoring students must be presented and when possible, involvement in master’s level theses/project advisement and/or doctoral dissertations.

  1. Reappointment, Tenure, and Promotion Criteria and the Criteria and Processes Relating to Other Faculty Personnel Actions
    1. Faculty Appointments
    2. Faculty Ranks
    3. Graduate Faculty Status
    4. Teaching
      1. Basic Expectations
      2. Standards
      3. Evaluation of Teaching
  2. Appendix I - School Organizational Chart
  3. Appendix II - Merit Summary Spreadsheet
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