Promotion to Associate Professor
- Excellence in academic or professional instruction.
- Evidence that course content is (a) current, relevant, and appropriate to the discipline, (b) planned and delivered at an appropriate depth and breadth, (c) attentive to needs of diverse students, and (d) engages students in higher order thinking.
- Evidence of instructional excellence from student evaluations, portfolios, peer review, and/or student learning outcomes. Multiple processes of evaluation are encouraged.
- Evidence of effective use of innovative teaching methods.
- Documentation of self-evaluation of teaching including analysis of and response to student evaluations or peer reviews of teaching.
- Participation in continuing education or other activities to improve teaching effectiveness.
- Recognition of contributions to pedagogy or practice at the department, college, or university levels.
Promotion to Professor
- Sustained excellence in instruction as evidenced by student evaluations, portfolios, peer review, and/or student learning outcomes.
- Sustained pattern of growth and professional development.
- National visibility for contributions to pedagogy or practice.
- Recognition of excellence in instruction by teaching awards, etc.
- Participation in the development of distance education courses, new degree/certificate programs, and/or new techniques/technology.
- Development of systematic mentoring programs for graduate teaching assistants and others aimed at instructional development and teaching improvement.
- Member or chair of undergraduate honors thesis committees, masters committees, or doctoral supervisory committees.