CON Standards for Promotion and Tenure

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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER COLLEGE OF NURSING
Title	Subsection: Appendix -
Section 5.0 - Information	Originating Date: February, 2006
Responsible Reviewing Agency: Professional Graduate Nursing Program Admission, Progression, Graduation, and Scholarship Committee. PhD Affairs Council Faculty Coordinating Council	Revised: April, 2008 Revised: March, 2013 (by FCC)
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Introduction

This document provides guiding principles to assist the faculty in preparing their documents for promotion and/or continuous appointment (tenure). Included are the criteria the committee uses in its process of reviewing the faculty documents and forming a recommendation to the Dean. The criteria in this document are areas of evidence that the faculty will demonstrate as their accomplishments in the narratives. The committee anticipates that faculty members will have different accomplishments to cite in the topic areas. There is a Promotion and Tenure website on the College of Nursing’s intranet (http://mycon.unmc.edu) that provides a link to the UNMC Promotion and Tenure guidelines and additional information regarding completion of the application (e.g., application deadlines, coaching assistance, request for reviewer, examples of narratives for the application).

Continuous appointment (tenure)

Granting of continuous appointment may or may not occur at the same time as promotion in rank, however, continuous appointment has its own requirements since it is an ongoing commitment for continuation of service between the University and the faculty member. In order to be considered for continuous appointment, a faculty member needs to demonstrate two sustained areas of accomplishment for the academic rank held by the faculty member and in one area at the lower rank.

Guidelines for Submitting Academic Promotion and Tenure Recommendations

Each year a set of guidelines is published by the UNMC that describes the types of documentation and set limits for the length of narrative to be included in the recommendation document. Since these will change from time to time, they will not be detailed here. A faculty member seeking promotion or continuous appointment should refer to the current document and dates for submitting materials.