The following materials are considered essential to a thorough review and are, therefore, required by the institution. You are responsible for uploading a current academic CV and a self-assessment. Check with your unit regarding additional local-level requirements.
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Your curriculum vitae (CV) is among the first documents reviewers consider when assessing your impact and productivity. It should be a comprehensive record of your academic activities and accomplishments, which—for most faculty appointments at UW—includes the full range of academic responsibilities: scholarship and research, teaching, and service.
Structure and format your CV in a way that makes it easy for reviewers to navigate the full breadth of your productivity, including, where appropriate, your published or creative work, grants, fellowships, courses taught, student mentoring and placement, affiliations with professional organizations, honors, and awards. Indicate the date your CV was last updated. Consider including a brief note that helps orient your audience to author-order norms for your field and avoid jargon or acronyms that may be unfamiliar to those outside your discipline.
Be sure to check with your unit to understand if they have specific formatting expectations.
Self-Assessment
Your self-assessment is an opportunity to elaborate on the impact and potential of your work. Focus on how you’ve successfully fulfilled the expectations of your appointment, advanced your field, contributed to the UW mission and vision, and positioned yourself for long-term success. Explain any gaps in productivity, what you learned from the experience, and how you adjusted.
Check out Crafting Your CV & Self-Assessment for additional tips on writing an effective self-assessment.
Be sure to check with your unit to understand if they have specific formatting or length expectations for the self-assessment.
Student Teaching Evaluations
For candidates who have teaching as a core expectation of their position, student evaluation of your teaching effectiveness is an essential component of your promotion and/or tenure review. The range of student teaching evaluations you need to include varies based on the type of appointment action you’re being considered for, and whether you’ve worked at other institutions.
Types of appointment actions:
- Award of Tenure (only)
Include all past student teaching evaluations. - Promotion (with or without tenure) and never held a tenure-eligible position at another institution
Include all student teaching evaluations since you were hired or last promoted, whichever is more recent. - Promotion (with or without tenure) and came to UW from another institution where you held a tenure-eligible position
Include all student teaching evaluations from your previous institution(s), plus all student teaching evaluations from UW.
Visit Templates & Guidelines to access the Teaching Chronicle template.
Peer Teaching Evaluations
For all candidates who have teaching as a core expectation of their position, peer evaluation of teaching effectiveness is an essential component of the promotion and/or tenure review. The number of peer teaching evaluations required depends on your current title or rank, regardless of whether you are on the tenure track, without tenure by reason of funding (WOT), teaching track, or clinical practice track.
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor Tenure Track, Professor Tenure Track, and Artists in Residence
- Include all peer evaluations since hire at UW (per Faculty Code 24-57, this should be at least one per year in which teaching occurs).
Associate Professor
- Include all peer evaluations since hire or last promotion, whichever is more recent (per Faculty Code 24-57, this should be at least one every three years).
Where teaching is required, a peer evaluation must be conducted in the academic year immediately preceding case submission to the provost’s office.
Outside Professional Work for Compensation (Form 1460)
Include all Form 1460s approved since your last appointment or promotion, whichever is most recent.