Promotion and Tenure Handbook
Table of Contents
- Section A - Vice President's Statement on Promotion & Tenure Criteria (pdf)
- Section B - Purpose and Principles (pdf)
- Section C - Timetables for Review (pdf)
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Section D - General Information on Review Process
- Overview of Reviews
- Rescinding Credit Toward Tenure
- Early Tenure and Promotion Reviews
- Counseling Out of Penn State
- Promotion to Full Professor
- Withdrawal of a Dossier
- Notifying Candidates of the Outcome of a Review
- Policy HR-60 Access to Personnel Files
- Section E - Recommended Timetables to Develop Dossier Materials (pdf)
- Section F - Dossier Content Checklist, Forms, and Materials to Include a Dossier (pdf)
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Section G - Sections of the Dossier
- Promotion and Tenure Form
- Biographical Data Form
- Budget Assignment Form
- Narrative Statement
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Scholarship of Research and Creative Accomplishments
- Service and he Scholarship of Service to the University, Society, and the Profession
- External Letters of Assessment
- Statements of Evaluation of the Candidate by Review Committees and Administrators
- Candidate's Signature Statement
- Supplemental Materials
- Information that Arrives Late or is Missing
- Section H - Level of Review and Consultation in the Review Process
- Section I - Sample format for Review Committee Letters(pdf)
- Section J - Guidelines for an Effective Campus Administrative Review Letter (pdf)
- Section K - Information by Division
- Section L - Other Documents (pdf)
- Section M - Guidelines for Immediate Tenure Reviews (pdf)
- Section N - Form for Summary of SRTE (pdf)
- Section O - Style Sheet for Citations(pdf)
- Section P - Sample of Candidates' Narrative Statements
- Section Q - Teaching Portfolios
- Section R - Sample Documentation for Electronic Publications (pdf)
- Section S - Model Biographical Summary (pdf)
- Section T - Strategies for Successful Promotion and Tenure (pdf)
- Section U - Charges to Promotion and Tenure Review Committees (pdf)
- Section V - Instructions to Candidates for External Reviews (pdf)
- Section W - Frequently Asked Questions (pdf)
- Section X - Legal Issues (pdf)
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