The Office for Faculty Advancement and UW ADVANCE have teamed up again to offer a Spring Webinar on planning ahead for next year’s faculty searches, with a focus on thinking strategically about search committees, designing effective assessment rubrics, and writing strong job ads.
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Faculty Hiring in a Virtual Environment: A Webinar on Ideas, Tools, and Best Practices
The Office for Faculty Advancement and UW ADVANCE have teamed up to offer a Webinar on practical strategies for running successful faculty searches either mostly or entirely online. We will explore questions like: Which aspects of faculty hiring can be easily adapted to virtual environments, and which aspects may need to be retooled or rethought? How can units run effective committee meetings and deliberations? How can you plan for potentially hosting campus visits through Zoom or similar platforms? How can you and the faculty candidate best get what you want and need from the virtual faculty hiring experience?
Video of this webinar is not available. Please refer to the slides for webinar information (click below to access the PowerPoint slides).
Key Updates to the 2024-2025 Promotion and Tenure Process
Several key changes are being introduced for the 2024-2025 Promotion and Tenure (P&T) process that will affect both preparation and submission of records. Key updates include revisions to Faculty Code 24-54, which now require substantial summaries of faculty discussion and votes, as well as sharing of elected faculty council reports and chair/director/campus dean/dean/chancellor independent assessments with candidates in all cases. Additionally, new guidance clarifies that unit and SCC leaders are not eligible to vote on cases they assess, and postponement discussions will occur only after non-favorable mandatory promotion votes.
To streamline administrative work, units are reminded to ensure all candidate records in Workday are fully up-to-date before submission. The Workday report R0722 Academic Promotion/Tenure Data Issues can be used to identify data issues impacting promotion-eligible faculty and librarians. New adjunct appointments should not be made during the review year to avoid complications. All P&T records will be submitted electronically via SharePoint, starting November 4, 2024. To make the process easier, it is recommended that submitted PDFs include bookmarks for easier navigation.
Key Dates for the 2024-2025 Cycle:
- November 4, 2024: SharePoint folders open for submissions.
December 16, 2024: Mandatory promotion and/or tenure records due.
February 3, 2025: Non-mandatory early promotion and/or tenure records due.
April 11, 2025: Librarian promotion records due.
For questions or assistance, contact the Office of Academic Personnel and Faculty (APF) at acadpers@uw.edu.
Resources from the 2024-2025 Promotion and Tenure Cycle training are available on the APF website P&T Process pages and Training Resources page.