Promotion, Tenure & Review

KSU leadership knows that it can be challenging to ready oneself for faculty evaluations, be they yearly or multilevel, especially as we ramp up our activities according to the R2 roadmap. For that reason, CETL has been asked to support faculty in those processes. Annual reviews include the Annual Review Document and the Faculty Performance Agreement. We support faculty both in drafting these documents and anchoring their trajectories in the priorities of our institution and of the University System of Georgia, and in preparing for the conversations they need to have with their chairs. We highlight the rules in the faculty handbook, but also encourage faculty to use this as an opportunity to reflect and to take control of their narrative.

Multilevel reviews—pre-tenure, tenure, promotion, and post-tenure review—are the most anxiety producing moments for many faculty. Faculty need to articulate their academic story and their value to the university beyond a laundry list of lines on the curriculum vitae, navigate the process for external letters which is still new, and pay attention to the changes in the software KSU uses to submit their portfolio, not to mention write response letters in the case of negative reviews. We support them via workshops and consultations and even partner with Faculty Affairs for support using the software.

Topics we cover in workshops include:

∙ Advancing one’s own case for tenure and/or promotion ∙ Writing compelling narratives ∙ Negotiation techniques for annual reviews ∙ Responding to feedback from annual reviews ∙ Technology training within Digital Measures Activity Insight and Workflow ∙ Troubleshooting common issues (outlier student evaluations, rejected papers or grants, challenges during a pandemic year, etc) ∙ Response letters