The University recognizes that the COVID-19 pandemic introduced numerous professional challenges to the work of our faculty beginning in spring 2020 and extending through spring 2022.
In the relevant dossier statements (teaching, research, mentoring, service, and honors), candidates may document the direct impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their professional work and opportunities (All accomplishments listed in the curriculum vitae (e.g., lab closures, global supply chain disruptions, inability to travel for work, and slowed book presses), as well as the ultimate impact on faculty productivity, performance,
and trajectory. In addition, candidates may also include an Optional COVID-19 Professional Impact Statement (limited to two pages) in the dossier [Subsection G.13(a)].
Reviewers at all levels should use these statements to help contextualize the candidate’s record in rank and consider the professional impacts when reviewing faculty work.
Note: While the COVID-19 pandemic also introduced personal challenges for many faculty members, those impacts are addressed by the faculty member designating periods during which their productivity was negatively impacted because of the personal circumstances, and those designated periods are excluded from the review.
For example, tenure-track faculty members had the option of requesting an extension to their probationary period and tenured faculty members had the option of requesting a personal circumstances flag due to the impact of COVID-19.
All candidates are evaluated based on the number of years of probationary service or the number of effective years of service in rank, not the total time in rankpapers, books, research grants, performances, etc.) are included in the dossier by reference.
In addition, information that is available to deans, chairs, and members of the president’s committee via University administrative systems (e.g., Workday, Research Management System, Faculty Profile, course evaluation survey results, dashboards distributed by Data to Insights, etc.) may be considered by the reviewers at any level.