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      • Teaching assignments and workload including workload equivalencies and related procedures Overview
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      • Procedures
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      • Tenure and Promotion Guidelines
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      • Reappointment and Promotion Criteria for Full-Time NTT Faculty
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    i.    A probationary Faculty seeking tenure and promotion is expected to perform adequate service at the department, college, university and/or community level. 
    ii.    Faculty seeking promotion to full professor must demonstrate excellent service at the department, college, university and/or community level.

    1. Matters of Department/School Governance and related procedures
    2. Teaching assignments and workload including workload equivalencies and related procedures
    3. Reappointment, tenure and promotion criteria and the criteria and processes relating to other faculty personnel actions
      1. Procedures
      2. Reappointment
      3. Tenure and Promotion Guidelines
      4. Criteria for Tenure and Promotion
        1. Academic Credentials/Supporting Documents
        2. Time to Tenure and Promotion
        3. Letters of Reference
        4. Evaluative Criteria for Tenure and Promotion
          1. Scholarship/Creative Scholarship
          2. Teaching
          3. Service
        5. Departmental Criteria: The Boyer Model and Reappointment Tenure and Promotion
      5. Reappointment and Promotion Criteria for Full-Time NTT Faculty
      6. Review of Divisional Heads
    4. Criteria, Performance Expectations, and Department/School Procedures Relating to Faculty Excellence Awards
    5. Other Department/School guidelines
    Pan African Studies Faculty Handbook
    University Faculty Handbook

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