CVPA Tenure & Promotion Checklist

Candidate Responsibilities

Candidate checklist:

1.___ Dossier is presented in 12-point font or equivalent for easy reading.

2.___ Section Title Pages have been downloaded from CVPA site and used.

3.___ Dossier Title Page provides year of hire on tenure track (and, for promotion, date of previous promotion).

4.___ Dossier Title Page indicates status being sought (e.g., promotion to rank of Professor)

5.___ Body of dossier is subdivided into sections as required for Provost dossier; added section for college use constitute an appendix.

6.___ Provost-level dossier includes all annual faculty reports, administrator evaluations, and, if relevant, report of midterm review.

7.___ Provost-level dossier includes ballot comments or indication that no comments were provided.

8.___ Dossier is paginated within sections; both section and page are indicated (e.g., 6-1 indicates Title Page for Section 6, page 1).

9.___ A spring clip secures college-level dossier in hard copy; no binder cover is presented.

10.___ PDFs of both provost-level and college-level dossiers are submitted to CVPA by specified means.

11.___ C.v. presents sections of information as required by CVPA format (e.g., reverse chronology; Education, Teaching, Research, and Service sections).

12.___ C.v. contains all important information from annual faculty reports.

13.___ C.v. lists courses taught by both number and title and, if necessary, subtitle (e.g., ART 4318: Art of the Renaissance-Art Life in 15th Century Florence).

14.___ C.v. lists stacked courses together, with subtitle if appropriate (e.g., ART 4318/5317, Art of the Renaissance/Renaissance and Baroque Art – Sex and Death in Renaissance Venice).

15.___ C.v. lists activities in single category of teaching, research, or service; items that might fall within 2 categories are cross-listed.

16.___ When possible, c.v. identifies students by name whose work is claimed under student achievements.

17.___ C.v. cross-lists items that external readers might consider to belong within a different category (e.g., Service category might indicate “see also activities related to Teaching for recruitment of students”).

18.___ Items that are cross-listed provide concise explanation of presence in more than a single category (e.g., organized session at conference; see research section for paper presented there).

19.___ Chair or Director has ranked all activities that constitute research and has verified ranking numbers by initials.

20.___ Candidate statements on Teaching, Scholarship, and Service provide concise summary of activities and outcomes (approximately one page for each statement).