Deadline
2026 deadline for college submission to the Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost: Thursday, January 15, 2026
Promotion and Tenure Review
- Checklist (DOC)
- Cover sheet (DOC)
- Resource Document: Guidelines for Completing the Cover Sheet for Promotion and/or Tenure
- Voting record (DOC)
- Factual information summary (DOC)
- Sample letters to external evaluators (DOC)
- Log of external letters (PDF | DOC)
- Excerpts from Faculty Handbook (PDF)
- Late developed information memo (DOC)
Guidance for documenting your work
- Documenting Evidence of Mentoring Effectiveness with Undergraduate and Graduate Students (DOC)
- Documenting your innovation and entrepreneurship (PDF)
- Document your teaching
- Faculty Handbook
- Guidelines for determining conflict of interest in faculty review processes (PDF)
- Guidelines on documenting contributions to multi-authored scholarship (PDF)
- ISU Library, resources for documenting research impact
- Writing a teaching philosophy statement (PDF)
- Writing an innovation and/or entrepreneurship philosophy statement (PDF)
Exemplary promotion and tenure dossiers
The Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost selects exemplary promotion and tenure dossiers available for faculty review throughout the year. These dossiers (Tab 2 narratives) offer good examples of the variety of ways in which faculty summarize and present their work and scholarly impact as part of their promotion and/or tenure case. These dossiers are available for faculty review via CyBox. If you are interested in reviewing these dossiers, please read the guidelines (DOC), then contact Mel Lee at mklee@iastate.edu or (515) 294-9591, to schedule a viewing time.
Promotion to associate professor with tenure
For questions or more information
- about policy: contact Tera Jordan, (515) 294-1527, trh@iastate.edu, or Dawn Bratsch-Prince, (515) 294-6410, deprince@iastate.edu
- about process: contact Kaela Black, (515) 294-8236, kblack@iastate.edu