Promotion and Tenure Review
Information for colleges and department chairs
Forms and materials for promotion and tenure process
- Checklist (PDF, 865KB)
- Cover sheet (DOC, 96KB | PDF, 152KB)
- Factual information summary (PDF, 267KB | DOC, 134KB)
- Sample letters to external evaluators (DOC, 54KB | PDF, 101KB)
- Log of external letters (PDF, 108KB | DOC, 73KB)
- Excerpts from Faculty Handbook (PDF, 129KB)
College templates for candidate preparation of promotion and tenure dossier
Documentation for Promotion and Tenure Process
- Writing an Innovation and/or Entrepreneurship Philosophy Statement (PDF, 254KB)
- Documenting Your Innovation and Entrepreneurship (PDF, 265KB)
- Guidelines and Examples for Voluntary Faculty Documenting of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Efforts (PDF, 151KB)
- Guidelines on Documenting Contributions to Multi-authored Scholarship (PDF, 324KB)
- Presenting your tenure file (PDF, 241KB)
- How to document your teaching
- Teaching portfolio contents
- Writing a teaching philosophy statement
- Student ratings of teaching
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
Promotion to Professor
- Best practices in mentoring and promotion of associate professors (PDF, 90KB)
- Mid-career faculty planning (PDF, 109KB)
- Resources for associate professors (DOC, 82KB)
Documenting impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic on faculty work
The Provost’s Office has issued clear communication to address impacts of the sudden disruption and unprecedented challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Relevant communications include:
- Documenting impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic on faculty work
- Best Practices for Documenting the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Faculty Workload
Exemplary Promotion and Tenure Dossiers
The Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost makes a selection of exemplary Promotion and Tenure dossiers available for faculty review throughout the year. These dossiers (Tab 2 faculty 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 and contact Mel Lee at mklee@iastate.edu or call 515-294-9591.
Other Promotion and Tenure References
- Faculty Handbook
- Guidelines for Determining Conflicts of Interest in Faculty Review Processes (PDF, 337KB)
- American Council on Education, Good Practice in Tenure Evaluation (PDF, 187KB)
- ISU Library, Electronic promotion and tenure resources for faculty