Faculty Handbook Revisions
June 5, 2006

Changes include:

Chapter 1, Standing Committees . Updated Provost's Standing Committee lists.

Chapter 2, Faculty Roles. Renamed policy to “Definitions of Teaching, Scholarship, and Service.” Moved to Chapter 4, Tenure and Promotion.

Chapter 4, Preparing for Tenure and Promotion. Added language under scholarship:

Contributions to engaged scholarship including collaborative reports, documentation of impact, external funding, and peer-reviewed journals. Removed description of engaged scholarship.

Also added:

All candidates for tenure and/or promotion must meet department, college, and university criteria in effect at the time of application.

Chapter 4, Moved text as follows from “Preparing for T & P” to “Definitions of Teaching, Research, and Service.” Combined the “scholarship of application” language with that for “engaged scholarship.” Categories of scholarship now include creative activity, inquiry, integration, the scholarship of teaching, and engaged scholarship.

Engaged scholarship now subsumes the scholarship of application. It adds to existing knowledge in the process of applying intellectual expertise to collaborative problem-solving with urban, regional, state, national and/or global communities and results in a written work shared with others in the discipline or field of study.  Engaged scholarship conceptualizes "community groups" as all those outside of academe and requires shared authority at all stages of the research process from defining the research problem, choosing theoretical and methodological approaches, conducting the research, developing the final product(s), to participating in peer evaluation.  Departments should refine the definition as appropriate for their disciplines and incorporate evaluation guidelines in departmental tenure and promotion criteria.

Chapter 4, “Evaluation of Effective Teaching, Scholarship, Service” (Title changed from “Faculty Evaluation”). The following text was added to the research section:

Likewise, the Scholarship of Engagement should cite peer-reviewed publications, collaborative reports, documentation of impact, and continuing external funding as evidence of research activity.  Please see the sections entitled "Teaching, Research, and Service", and "Documenting for Tenure and Promotion" for further details.

Chapter 4, “Credit for Prior Service.” The following text was added to paragraph 1:

In these cases, the faculty member is expected to submit a dossier that is consistent with the guidelines outlined in the Handbook "Preparing for Tenure and Promotion."  His/her application will be considered during the regular fall/spring tenure and promotion cycle.

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