Promotion and Tenure Review
Best Practices and Guidance
- Promotion and tenure process for AY2023-2024 (PDF, 177KB)
- Process guidelines for promotion and tenure review (PDF, 303KB)
- Best practices for successful preparation and review of P&T cases (PDF, 320KB)
- Timing of promotion and tenure review (PDF, 255KB)
- Guidelines for Determining Conflicts of Interest in Faculty Review Processes (PDF, 337KB)
- Faculty Handbook
Forms and Materials
- Checklist (DOC, 235KB | PDF, 248KB)
- Cover sheet (DOC, 225KB | PDF, 293KB)
- Voting record (DOC, 222KB | PDF, 246KB)
- Factual information summary (DOC, 240KB | PDF, 415KB)
- Sample letters to external evaluators (DOC, 54KB | PDF, 101KB)
- Log of external letters (DOC, 224KB | PDF, 327KB)
- Excerpts from Faculty Handbook (PDF, 328KB)
- Late developed information memo (DOC, 31KB | PDF, 196KB)
College Templates for Candidate Preparation
Guidance for Documenting your Work
- Guidelines on Documenting Contributions to Multi-authored Scholarship (PDF, 324KB)
- ISU Library, Resources for documenting research impact
- Document your teaching
- Writing an Innovation and/or Entrepreneurship Philosophy Statement (PDF, 254KB)
- Documenting Your Innovation and Entrepreneurship (PDF, 265KB)
- Best Practices for Documenting the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Faculty Workload (PDF, 44KB)
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 (PDF, 36KB) and contact Mel Lee at mklee@iastate.edu or call 515-294-9591.
Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure
- Best practices in mentoring and promotion of asistant professors (PDF, 167KB)
- Assistant professor/tenure-eligible faculty planning (PDF, 167KB)
- Resources for assistant professors (PDF, 133KB)
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)