Promotion & Reappointment
Enacting Equity for Teaching and Professional Series Faculty: Appointments and Promotion in MCE
Ryan Evely Gildersleeve, Associate Dean and Professor It’s hard to believe that it was six years ago when the Morgridge College of Education (MCE) first adopted a stand-alone appointments and promotion policy for our teaching and professional (T&P) series faculty...
Supporting Teaching and Professional Faculty: A Year in Review
By Laura Sponslor, Clinical Assistant Professor, Morgridge College of Education and Resident Scholar, Office of Teaching and Learning Over the past year, the office of the Vice Provost of Faculty Affairs in collaboration with the Office of the Provost, Faculty Senate,...
A Structure for Addressing Power and Transparency in Decision Making
Photo by fauxels from Pexels By Kimberly Bender, Philip D. and Eleanor G. Winn Endowed Professor for Children and Youth at Risk, Co-chair of the promotion and tenure committee at GSSW This year, our Promotion & Tenure (P&T) committee used the Deliberative...
Making Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Promotion, Tenure, and Re-Appointment Decisions Visible
Photo by Luke Webb from Pexels By Hava Rachel Gordon, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology, ODEI Fellow for CAHSS The College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee has prioritized...
Supporting Teaching and Professional Faculty: An Institutional Priority: Update
On Friday, February 5th, over fifty faculty and staff attended this panel tracing the history of advocacy for Teaching and Professional Faculty at DU. This advocacy led to the creation of the teaching and professional line series in 2015. Laura Sponsler, Resident...
Deliberative Decision Making (DDM) Pilot in Unit Level Promotion & Tenure (P&T) Meetings
Former Faculty Senate President Darrin Hicks and Kate Willink are extending the work of the symposium through a unit-level P &T committee pilot this year. We are now applying our insights in DDM to the tenure and promotion process. As demonstrated in the above...
Faculty Senate Teaching Evaluation Task Force Motion
The Senate, in partnership with the Vice Provost of Faculty Affairs, seeks to improve DU’s methods of course evaluation and teaching review for the purpose of annual reviews, promotion, and reappointment. See Full Motion Here
Online P&T: Piloting Promotion & Tenure Applications in Digital Measures’ Workflow
DU began using Activity Insight/Digital Measures’ Workflow system for Annual Reviews for all faculty in fall 2019. The Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science also piloted their Promotion and Tenure process in Workflow in the 2019-2020 academic year in...
Cover Sheet for Promotion & Tenure
We had a discussion at the recent Associate Deans’ huddle about adding a cover sheet to the Tenure and Promotion packets to help reduce errors, speed up the process and provide an at-a-glance review for each candidate. Please use this fillable pdf this year as the...