Because variation in requirements is possible among disciplines and departments, a dean may distribute additional procedural guidelines and information for preparation of candidate dossiers within their college or school.
- This information must be disseminated to the college or school faculty (including promotion candidates) and shared with the Provost’s Office.
- These University of Texas at Austin Guidelines, the UT Austin Handbook of Operating Procedures, the UT System Regents’ Rules, applicable state and federal laws take precedence over college and school guidelines.
- Note that if the policy in the relevant UT Austin Handbook of Operating Procedures is under revision, then the candidate and reviewers should address questions to the provost’s Faculty Affairs team.
For tenured associate professor candidates for promotion to tenured full professor who were tenured and promoted to their current rank at the University, college and school promotion review guidelines must clarify how to consider accomplishments completed during their prior promotion’s review year.
- Specifically, it is sometimes the case that some accomplishments are completed, awards received, etc. during the year that a faculty member is being reviewed for a promotion.
- For those accomplishments, awards, etc. that are not included in the materials under review for that first promotion (to tenured associate professor), the college or school must clarify whether
they can be included as indicators of performance, accomplishment, and trajectory in the next promotion review (to tenured full professor). - Each accomplishment, award, etc. must count toward only one promotion at UT Austin.
If the college or school does not have additional promotion review guidelines, then accomplishments completed, awards received, etc. during the earlier rank’s promotion review year cannot be considered as in-rank accomplishments for the next rank’s promotion review.
Note that course evaluation survey results during the promotion review year can only be considered for the promotion under active review.
- Thus, the college and school guidelines can only specify how to handle accomplishments in the areas of research, service, mentoring and honors/awards that were not part of the materials assessed during the prior promotion’s review.