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Faculty Senate

Tenure and Promotion and Evaluation Resources

 

AAUP Resources on Tenure

AAUP Stopping the Tenure Clock
From AAUP site:  Younger faculty members may be forced to make hard decisions between family and career during the probationary period such as whether to delay attempts at childbearing or the provision of care for a family member with special needs. Upon request, a faculty member should be allowed to stop the tenure clock or extend the probationary period, with or without taking a full or partial leave of absence.

AAUP Statement of Principles on Family Responsibilities and Academic Work

From AAUP site: Transforming the academic workplace into one that supports family life requires substantial changes in policy and, more significantly, changes in academic culture. These changes require a thorough commitment from the leaders of educational institutions as well as from the faculty. No template of policies fits every institution, but it is essential that the priorities, workloads, rewards structure, and values of the academy permit and support an integration of family and work. Without such support, the commitment to gender equity, for both women and men, will be seriously compromised.

Evaluation Resources

AAUP Statement  of Teaching Evaluation


Recent Studies and Recommendations

An Agenda for Excellence: Creating Flexibility in Tenure-Track Faculty Careers
In An Agenda for Excellence: Creating Flexibility in Tenure-Track Faculty Careers, ACE and a panel of presidents and chancellors from across the United States outline an ambitious agenda to reform  and enhance the academic career path for tenure and tenure-track faculty

Harvard’s Report on the Task Force on Women Faculty and Taskforce on Women in  Science and Engineering

AAUP: Gender Equity Guidelines for Department Chairs
 

Accrediting Information

UM College of Business

College of Business Accreditation Statement
AACSB  International
 

UM College of Education
College of Education Accreditation links

NCATE Standard 5:  Faculty Qualifications, Performance and Development

UM Department of Music
NASM National Association of Schools of Music

Standards and Recommendations  
Academic Librarians
Association of College and Research Librarians Guidelines  for Appointment, Promotion and Tenure of Academic Librarians

Art Historians
College Art Association Standards for Retention and Tenure of Art Historians