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).

Areas of Accomplishments

In order to achieve the missions of the College and the University of Nebraska Medical Center UNMC), faculty members strive to achieve excellence in the three areas of teaching, scholarship, and service. Since faculty members’ responsibilities are different within the College, individual faculty accomplishments will reflect these differences. Three areas are:

• Teaching - Teaching activity recognizes significant accomplishments in classroom, clinical and research supervision.
• Scholarly Activity - Scholarly activity recognizes significant accomplishments that follow traditional research activities and those that relate to teaching or practice.
• Professional Service - Professional service recognizes significant accomplishments for the university, professional organizations and in practice arenas.

Promotion to Associate Professor

In order to achieve promotion to the rank of an associate professor, a faculty member must demonstrate the following:

1. Sustained record of outstanding accomplishments in at least two areas for Associate Professor rank.
2. One area can be at Assistant Professor rank.

Promotion to Professor

In order to achieve promotion to the rank of an associate professor, a faculty member must demonstrate the following:

1. Sustained record of accomplishments in at least two areas for Professor rank.
2. One area can be at Associate Professor rank.

The following table identifies the criteria for the corresponding rank.

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.