DISCIPLINE COORDINATORS’ RESOURCES
The documents below guide and assist Discipline Coordinators (DCs) as they work with the faculty in their divisions throughout the academic year. The materials are listed in the order in which they will be needed during the year.
Many helpful materials also are available on the University College (UC) Faculty Evaluation and Development web site. DCs will find answers to many of the questions asked by division faculty members on this web site and in the UC Promotion & Tenure Handbook.
FALL SEMESTER
Schedule Fall Appointments: use Doodle poll
Telephone meetings with division faculty
- Discussion Guides
- Faculty Mentoring - A Guide for DAAs and DCs
- Strategies for Successful Promotion & Tenure (pdf) & 5-year Planning Timetable (Excel)
Planning Division Faculty Meetings
- Schedule & Appendix I
- Schedule: Appendix II
- Agenda Examples
- English: fall agenda & spring agenda
- Math
- Science
- Joint meeting: Arts & Humanities + Social Science & Education
Sabbatical Leave
- The key document: Preparing Sabbatical Leave Applications: A Guide for Faculty
- Policy HR-17 Sabbatical Leave (includes link to application form)
Promotion to Senior Instructor for Non-Tenure System Faculty
- Guidelines for Promotion
- Statement of Scholarship Expectations for Faculty Members not in the Tenure System
SPRING SEMESTER
External Review Process
- Instructions for DCs & Candidates: Section V of P & T Handbook
- Process for Identifying External Reviewers (includes email template for contacting potential external reviewers)
- Narrative Statement: Section P of P & T Handbook
Faculty Evaluation in March Conferences
- Summary evaluation form
- Documenting Publication Quality: Section Z of P & T Handbook
Division Research Reports
Division Elections to Select P & T Discipline Representatives
OTHER INFORMATION
Discipline Coordinator Job Description
Promotion to Full Professor
- Procedure for Preliminary Review for Promotion to Full Professor: Section EE of P & T Handbook
- Service Activities for Promotion to Full Professor: Section DD of P & T Handbook