Promotion and tenure are awarded to tenure-track faculty who have demonstrated excellence in scholarship and teaching and who have provided solid service to their field and to the university. Specific guidelines and criteria are found in each department’s APT document.
The Office of Faculty Affairs offers workshops to prepare for promotion and tenure. We welcome you to contact us if you have any questions. We can meet with you one-on-one to answer questions and to describe the promotion and tenure process. We also recommend talking with your department chair and the chair of your department’s promotion and tenure committee.
Seeking Promotion/Tenure
There are four areas you need to become familiar if you seek promotion or tenure.
- Check the Appointments, Promotion and Tenure guidelines specific to your department;
- Familiarize yourself with OSU’s criteria for promotion, tenure and promotion reviews;
- Review the procedural guidelines developed by OSU’s Office of Academic Affairs;
- Use the core dossier outline to assist you in recording your accomplishments and including all necessary information needed to create your core dossier for your promotion or tenure review. EHE also has an annotated core dossier outline to help more detail and clarification to the core dossier outline.
The procedural guidelines include general information about the review process at the college and university level. You’ll also find information about any legal considerations affecting promotion and tenure evaluations, examples of how candidates are evaluated and other information intended to assist in the review process.
Timeline
The timeline for promotion and tenure reviews are evaluated and coordinated among the college, the departments and the Office of Academic Affairs. See the calendar and deadlines for important dates to meet for your promotion or tenure review.