STS Dossier Format and Checklist
Tenure Review
1. Chair’s Letter
_____ Chair’s Recommendation
2. Procedural Steps
_____ Procedural steps for conducting tenure review
_____ Copy of departmental guidelines on tenure and promotion for STS faculty
_____ Candidate’s Special Title Series position description
_____ (if applicable) Request for review by Area Committee different from that specified in the Administrative
Regulations
3. Personal Data
_____ Up-to-date curriculum vitae
_____ Copies of DOEs since the date of hire
_____ Copies of the two-page chair’s rating sheets from merit review since the date of hire
4. Progress Reviews
_____ Copies of all progress reviews conducted by the department
5. External Letters
_____ List of outside evaluators suggested by candidate
_____ List of outside evaluators selected independently by chair
_____ Credentials of outside evaluators (including CVs, if possible)
_____ Letters from outside evaluators (these must be signed and on letterhead)
6. Internal Letters
_____ Roster of department faculty members and their academic rank
_____ Letters from appropriate department faculty members
7. Teaching
_____ Teaching portfolio
Mandatory:
_____ personal statement on teaching: This can be a synthesis of material in the teaching section of the FMER
_____ a list of all courses taught since the date of hire (with the course number, title, number of students enrolled,
and a brief course description)
_____ numerical course evaluations for all courses taught
_____ representative course syllabi
Optional: sample assignments, examples of graded work, accomplishments of former students, peer evaluation reports, evidence of recognition such as teaching awards or grants, enumeration and description of work with individual students, etc.
8. Service
_____ Statement and materials on service
9. Administration
_____ A statement and materials on administration
10. Research
_____ Personal statement on research
_____ Research materials
11. Miscellaneous
(if applicable) Written evaluations of individual by:
_____ Undergraduate student group
_____ Professional or graduate student group
_____ Individual graduate students
_____ Other