University of Colorado Denver Tenure and Promotion Guidelines (2018-2019) Vice Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Reappointment, Tenure and Promotion (VCAC) Letterĭepartment of Urban and Regional Planning RTP Criteria Primary Unit Evaluation Committee (PUEC) Letter So, without further ado, here are my tenure materials: I think the benefits of sharing outweigh my concerns, however. Dossier reviews professional#This doesn’t worry me much as I already have tenure :) but there is definitely a feeling of vulnerability sharing these professional (yet oddly personal) documents. That brings up my third concern, that I am exposing my work to the type of critical examination usually reserved for letter writers and review committees. Tenure documents are effusive by nature read between the lines and you will see the critiques. Second, the review letters say some really nice things about me, and I don’t want to give the impression that I am bragging. I hope that you will see these materials in the spirit I provide them, to help you understand the tenure review process through one unique case and one particular university. Your own experience – the institutional resources you receive, the expectations you are subject to, and the barriers you face – will vary. Like any academic, my record (and the dossier that describes it) has its strengths and weaknesses. First, and most important, I don’t want to give the impression that mine is a “typical” dossier package. I have been debating whether or not to publish this post for several months. I am also sharing copies of the decision letters from my primary unit, college and university review committees, so you can see a) how the decision-making process flows from department to college to campus and b) how external letter writers and reviewers described my work and assessed the strengths and weaknesses of my case. Therefore, I am sharing all of my dossier materials below. Having sat on several hiring committees, a key question about candidates is always “can this person earn tenure at our institution?” Knowing what you aiming at is the sign of a competitive application, in my experience. For PhD students, understanding the field through the lens of tenure can be a very useful professional development goal. For junior faculty, it is helpful to see examples of how dossiers might be strategized and constructed. I am a firm believer that accessible examples of professional documents like grant budgets can help to demystify academia, making it more accessible and (eventually, hopefully) more diverse. I was surprised to find very few examples online from the social sciences, and could not find any from urban and regional planning. In the years leading-up to my tenure review, I searched for example dossiers (the combination of documents you submit as part of your tenure application or “package”). In this era of disinvestment from public education and the exploitation of contingent faculty and graduate students, it is also a form of job security that fewer and fewer worthy colleagues will enjoy. Tenure is also an enormous investment by the university in you as a professional. Tenure is perhaps the most important moment in an academic’s career – it is the culmination of years of hard work and a giant exhale of the anxieties and stresses that define your experience as a junior faculty member. I recently received tenure and promotion from the University of Colorado Denver.
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