Promotion & Reappointment
From Idea to Implementation to Institutionalization: Creating Collaborative Department Cultures and Climates
By Kate Willink, Vice Provost of Faculty Affairs If you can, think back to May of 2019. Personally, I can hardly remember what happened last week, much less pre-pandemic. So, if you were a faculty member, chair, or director in spring 2019, here are some things you...
Support for Writing COVID-19 Impact Statements and Teaching Reflections
To support faculty as they prepare annual and other review materials this fall, we created three guidance documents. Learn how to write a COVID impact statement or engage in meaningful reflection on your teaching in lieu of CTEs at this VPFA faculty resource page. We...
Deliberative Decision Making in Promotion & Tenure: Train-the-Trainer Opportunity
By Darrin Hicks, Professor, Department of Communication Studies Tenure, promotion, and reappointment decisions are some of the most consequential choices faculty make. They are also some of the most difficult. Thus, it is imperative that the process is widely...
“Activity Insight” Is Now “Watermark Faculty Success”
Activity Insight (also known as Digital Measures) changed its name to “Watermark Faculty Success” in August. Watermark Faculty Success is used for faculty data and reporting, and is where faculty complete annual reviews, sabbatical applications, and some tenure and...
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...