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Navigating Academic Appointments and Promotion

July 27, 2018 Dianne Durham, PhD Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Development

• Kansas Board of Regents (KBOR) Policy – all KS campuses

– http://www.kansasregents.org/board_policy_manual – Definition of tracks, approval of new tracks – Other policies like post tenure review, social media policy – Tenure and clinical scholar track changes April 2017

• Handbook for Faculty and Staff – KUMC campus

– Governs activities across the med center (all 3 schools) – Major revision in 2016; 130 pages instead of 264!!

• SOM specific criteria

– Interpretation of handbook; evaluation by ca career le level – Domain Guide gives examples of expectations at each career level – Matrix of requirements by track and rank; also available – Link on SOM Faculty Affairs and Development website

How are tracks and expectations defined?

Basis for faculty activity evaluation - three buckets

• Three areas of faculty activity are evaluated in the promotion and tenure process:
• Teach

eaching ing (very broadly defined, includes formal and one-on-one, bedside)

• Res

esearch/Schol earch/Scholarshi arship (clinical and bench research, funding, publications)

• Se

Servi vice ce (patient care and professional/academic service)

• For each category, both qualitative and quantitative measures are used in the

evaluation (e.g. RVUs for clinical service)

• Accomplishments in each category are given an overall rating based on the career level

achieved by the applicant (early, mid, established career)

• There are different career level expectations in the three activity areas for each faculty

track, and for each rank (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor) within the tracks

• Career progress specific to each field is best addressed in letters from:
• The department chair
• The departmental P&T committee
• The chair of the secondary department
• Division director (if applicable)
• Center or Institute director

• Tenure Track – substantial contributions in all three domains
• Clinical Scholar Track – substantial contributions in 2 of 3

– Clinician Educator pathway – clinical service and education – Clinician Investigator pathway – clinical service and research

• *Clinical Track – primarily clinical service
• *Research Track – primarily research activities
• *Educator Track – requires 70% effort in teaching
• Affiliate Track – located at one of several affiliate institutions
• *Volunteer Appointments – unpaid by KUMC

Summary of Tracks – activity expectations

* Denotes modified title, e.g. “Clinical Assistant Professor”

What are the expectations for promotion?

• Tenure track – substantial contributions in all categories
• To achieve te

tenure ure, must reach mid career in teaching and research, show trajectory to achieve full professor in the future

• For full professor, must reach established career achievement in tw

two areas, mid in the remaining

• International/National recognition required for full professor
• Clinical Scholar Track – substantial contributions in 2 of 3

areas of activity, one of which is Clinical service. The other depends on your additional activities:

• Clinician Educator Path - teaching
• Clinician Investigator Path – research/scholarship
• Research, clinical or educator track – substantial

contributions in your primary area of activity . Some additional contributions to one of the other areas is expected

• Promotion to Associate Professor:
• Mid career in service (patient care, professional and academic service)
• Mid career in teaching (Educator) or Research/Scholarship (Investigator)
• Early career in remaining
• Promotion to Professor:
• Established career in service (patient care, professional and academic service)
• Established career in teaching (Educator) or Research Scholarship (Investigator)
• Mid career in remaining

Career level expectations – Clinical Scholar track: Career level expectations – Single emphasis track:

• Promotion to Associate Professor:
• Mid career in primary area (research, teaching or clinical/professional service)
• Early career in one of the two other areas
• Promotion to Professor:
• Established career in primary area (research, teaching or clinical/professional service)
• Mid career in one of the two other areas

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• Tenure track faculty have a 7 year probationary period; maximum 2 year extension
• The timing of mandatory and mid-cycle reviews are determined by the start date

(calendar year of initial appointment)

• mid-cycle review by June 30 of third year; department P&T committee
• mandatory SOM review at the beginning of the 6th year
• Second chance for review at the beginning of the 7th, final year
• Department P&T committees play a crucial role in all evaluations

June 30 2015

Academic year Calendar year

Section II – Teaching Activities

• 1. Philosophy of Teaching
• 2. Instruction Detail
• A. Didactic (formal) (can combine across years in a single entry)
• B. Non-didactic (informal)
• C. Clinical (include hrs/week, # learners, weeks/year)
• D. Master’s Theses and PhD Dissertations Directed
• E. Supervision of Residents and/or Postdoctoral Fellows
• F. Advising
• G. Other Teaching Activities
• 3. Development of Educational Materials
• 4. Educational Leadership