Criteria and/or Standards for Reappointment, Promotion, Tenure, Professor

Supplement, and Performance Review for Tenured Faculty.

All faculty members are required to assemble a portfolio of evidence to be considered in tenure and promotion reviews. The portfolio is to include content addressing each of the criteria, as well as all applicable standards under each criterion. As part of the portfolio it is the faculty members’responsibility to recommend specific point values for each standard, and provide appropriate documentation and/or justification for each recommendation. Approval or appropriate modification of recommended point values is the prerogative and responsibility of the personnel committee.

1.     Criteria. In accordance with the , “criteria” refer to areas of evaluation. The areas of evaluation in which faculty members are to be evaluated include the following:

a.          Teaching - Teaching is to include all instructional responsibilities assigned to a faculty member that can be identified by a CMU course number.

b.          Scholarly and Creative Activity - Scholarly and Creative Activity is to include all scholarly and creative activities of the faculty member that are directly or indirectly related to their professional discipline and/or their assigned responsibilities within the university.

c.         Service – Service is divided into two categories. The first category includes activities that provide service that benefits the university and community. This includes service at the program, division, school, college and campus-wide levels as well as public service to the community. The second category of service is activity that is directly related to the faculty members’professional discipline.

This includes service to professional organizations and to agencies directly related to the profession.

2.          Standards. In accordance with the , “standards” refer to the performance requirements to be applied to each criterion (area of evaluation). Each area of evaluation will have a unique set of standards by which faculty are to be evaluated.

a.          Teaching Standards - Every faculty member is expected to demonstrate effectiveness in teaching. Evidence of effectiveness in teaching will be reviewed in up to five categories as described in parts “i” through “v” of this sub-section. Demonstration of effectiveness in teaching must include evidence in both categories “i” (Student Perceptions of Teaching) and “ii” (Process of Teaching). Candidates must achieve a performance score of 6 or higher in category “i” and a score of at least 6 in category “ii”. Faculty members must also submit evidence of teaching effectiveness by presenting additional evidence in at least one of the three remaining categories (Outcome Assessment, Peer Assessment, Educational Support Activities).

i.           Student Perceptions of Teaching - This will most often consist of data from SOS or SET surveys provided by the university. However individual faculty members may choose another instrument or additional instruments provided they have been approved by the university or division.

ii.          Process of Teaching - Process of teaching is to include a statement of teaching philosophy, and examples of course materials that document the quality and organization of course content, as well as appropriateness and effectiveness of educational methodologies.

iii.         Outcome Assessment - Outcome assessment refers to evidence of quality outcomes that are (in whole or in part) the specific result of identifiable instructional responsibilities of a faculty member. Such evidence includes but is not limited to results of outcome surveys of students, graduates or employers; standardized

examinations; performance assessments in clinical education; as well as other measures that demonstrate student achievement of major course and curricular outcome objectives.

iv.        Peer Assessment - Peer assessment of teaching refers to formal evaluation of specific aspects of a faculty member’s teaching. It is to be performed by a person with credible knowledge and experience as an educator, as well as sufficient knowledge of the content area upon which the evaluation is to take place. Peer assessment is to be pre- arranged, including the time and content areas to be assessed, as well as the criteria by which the faculty member is to be judged and recommendations made.

Where possible, peer assessment should also include

description of changes made by a faculty member as a result of recommendations from peer assessment, and the results of those changes.

v.         Educational Support Activities - Educational support activities include academic advising, research advising for students doing Plan-B papers, serving on thesis or dissertation committees, serving as an advisor or speaker for student organizations, providing representation and advisement to students and potential students in career and major forums.

vi.        Clinical Activities – Clinical activities include activities that enhance and support the teaching of clinical skills to students within the programs. This category includes attending clinical education courses, attaining professional certifications, university course work that is related to clinical skills, and clinical practice in specialized area. Scores in this category cannot be applied toward the minimum 30 points in teaching.

Each faculty member must accumulate a minimum of 30 points for teaching effectiveness. This is to include at least six or more points in category “i” and at least six or more points in category “ii”. Points achieved in Section vi., Clinical Activities, cannot be counted toward the minimum 30 points.  Faculty members who present evidence of teaching effectiveness beyond the minimum may accumulate up to 60 points toward their numerical score in the evaluation process. Point accumulations for evidence of teaching effectiveness are to be based upon evidence accumulated since the faculty member’s initial appointment or most recent promotion.

Point values for evidence of teaching quality are indicated in the following table:

Point Values for Assessment of Teaching

30 - 60 points

b.          Standards for Scholarly and Creative Activities - Every faculty member is expected to maintain a program of scholarly and creative activity that results in evidence of bona fide (credible) achievement. Such activities include research and development relevant to the faculty member’s professional discipline and/or

assigned responsibilities within the university. It must also include appropriate dissemination of the products of those activities.

Scholarly and creative activities are to be judged for their quality and impact on the professional discipline and/or on the university community. In order for the product of a faculty member’s scholarly and creative activities to be considered, there must be evaluation to verify the quality of the product, as well as the magnitude of the faculty member’s contribution to the product. Such verification may be an integral part of the peer review process for a journal publication, or it may be in some other form.

It is the faculty member’s responsibility to assemble credible evidence of the quality and impact of a product, as well as their contribution to the product, in order to demonstrate its merit in the tenure and promotion process.

Each faculty member must accumulate a minimum of 30 points in the criterion of scholarly and creative activities for tenure. A minimum of 30 points must also be accumulated for promotion in academic rank. If otherwise eligible, a faculty member may seek tenure and promotion at the same time, counting the same points toward both. In all cases, at least 12 points must be from “Tier I” scholarly and creative activities as defined in the table below. Faculty members who present sufficient evidence of scholarly and creative activities beyond the minimum may accumulate up to 50 points towards their numerical score in the evaluation process.

In most cases point values for scholarly and creative activities are

to be based upon evidence accumulated since the faculty members’

initial appointment or most recent promotion. Faculty members who are eligible to be considered for promotion or tenure before they have been in SRMS for four years, may supplement evidence accumulated in SRMS with additional evidence accumulated during the most recent four years in another CMU appointment or in another capacity outside the university. The proportion of points allowed for scholarly work preceding an appointment in SRMS must not exceed the proportion of time allowed for consideration prior to an appointment in SRMS. Point values for scholarly and creative activities are indicated in the following table:

Point Values for Assessment of Scholarly and Creative Activities*

30 - 50 points (at least 12 points from Tier I)

*For each item submitted the faculty member is to provide a brief description of the product that will allow reviewers to judge the quality and impact of the product, as well as their personal contribution to the product. Specific evidence of quality, impact and contribution should be cited wherever possible.

**Tier I products are those of highest quality and impact on the discipline or university. Each division will maintain a list of journals that are central to the discipline and in which publications may qualify for Tier I credit.

***Tier II scholarly and creative activities are important professional contributions, but have lesser impact within the discipline or university.

In addition to the activities and products included in the tables, faculty members may submit evidence of other scholarly and

creative activities for consideration. In order to be counted there must be credible evidence of the quality and impact of other activities. Evidence of quality should include some form of evaluation of the activity and/or product, and evidence of impact should include description of the dissemination of the product. Point values requested/awarded for other activities should be justified on a comparative basis relative to the activities and products listed in the table above.

c.         Standards for Service - Every faculty member is expected to participate in active service to the university. Such activities are generally related to participation on university, college, school or division committees, or other activities that provide services to students and facilitate the business of the university.

Faculty members may also receive credit for public service directly related to their professional discipline. Such activities may include volunteer service to professional organizations, government, community, school or other organizations.

Service activities are to be judged according to the importance of the activity to the organization, and the amount and quality of work contributed.

Each faculty member must accumulate a minimum of 30 points in the criterion of service activities for tenure, of which at least 12 points must be in service to the university, college and/or division. A minimum of 30 points must also be accumulated for promotion to a higher faculty rank, of which at least 12 points must be in service to the university. An eligible faculty member may seek

tenure and promotion at the same time if they have accumulated 30 points since their initial appointment or last promotion, with at

least 12 of those points in service to the university, college and/or

division. Faculty members who present sufficient evidence of service activities beyond the minimum may accumulate up to 40 points toward their numerical score in the evaluation process.

In most cases point values for service activities are to be based upon evidence accumulated since the faculty member’s initial appointment or most recent promotion. Faculty members who are eligible to be considered for promotion or tenure before they have been in SRMS for four years, may supplement evidence accumulated in SRMS with additional evidence accumulated during the most recent four years in another CMU appointment or in another capacity outside the university. The proportion of points allowed for service preceding an appointment in SRMS must not

exceed the proportion of time allowed for consideration prior to an appointment in SRMS. Point values for service activities are indicated in the following table:

Point Values for Assessment of Service Activities*

30 - 40 points