NEW PROMOTIONS POLICY & PROCEDURES Academic Board Meeting 13 th - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Academic Board Meeting 13th May, 2009

NEW PROMOTIONS POLICY & PROCEDURES

Why?

Strategic Plan 2008-11

• develop a transparent system for the recognition, reward

and promotion of staff who excel in curriculum development and teaching

• identify, develop and reward high performing staff
• review and, where appropriate restructure all academic,

administrative and committee structures

How has this review been done?

• Working party covering full range of faculty interests
• Sub-groups looking at issues such as criteria for clinical
• r professional excellence
• Review of policy and procedures at highest performing

universities

• Proposed model and revised procedures brought to

Academic Board November 2008 before full development

Requirements of a new approach

• Clear and consistent framework for career development;

consistency between levels

• Clarity about what constitutes evidence of excellence in

teaching, service and leadership

• Greater recognition of excellent performance in

university service and leadership work

• More efficient and effective procedures to make it easier

for staff to make successful applications

Major Changes to Policy

• 4 areas of activity rather than 3 to be recognised
• Requirement for all applications to provide evidence of

excellence in teaching and/or research, and threshold contributions in other areas

• Focus on externally peer-reviewed outputs and

independent evidence of quality and impact

• Clear standards of evidence for claims of excellence in

teaching

Major Changes to Policy – (cont)

• Abolition of weightings
• Focus on the overall case, relative to opportunity, to

allocated workloads and to specific contracts

Major Changes to Procedures

• One central committee, meeting monthly
• Applications at any time
• Development of an evidence matrix to provide

assistance in developing a case for promotion, with Level specific examples under each area of activity

Major Changes to Procedures – (Cont)

• Request for three different types of evidence:

– externally peer-reviewed or independent measures of quality and impact – appropriate professional development and preparation – references and other forms of feedback from stakeholders

• Clarity about responsibility for feedback

Next Steps

• Q and A information sessions on Bundoora and Bendigo

campuses

• Development of streamlined application forms and

processes

• Investment in on-line process

Next Steps – (cont)

• Establishment and induction of University Promotions

Committee

• Call for applications July 2009, first meeting September

2009

• Integration of new policy with review of PEDS, and

probation policy and procedures

Widespread happiness and joy…………

RESULT?