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Promotion and Tenure Policy
The Penn State policy governing promotion and tenure (AC23) 规定晋升和终身教职的决定应根据学术单位的使命和教员所承担的专业责任所适用的标准. 大学的标准故意笼统,期望每个学术单位进一步定义和阐述. 本文件的目的是描述在阿尔图纳学院任职和晋升的期望和标准. This document should be read in the context of the broader procedures and standards of the University. 关于本文件中所包含的期望和标准的知识应该是普遍可用的, especially to newly appointed faculty members. 本文件中提出的标准广泛适用于以阿尔图纳学院教师为代表的各种学科.
The promotion and tenure policies of Altoona College should contribute to academic excellence and should also be consistent with the College’s mission of providing a high-quality education for its students; fostering research, creative activity, and scholarship; and enhancing the intellectual, cultural, and economic lives of the community. (The Altoona College mission statement in its entirety can be found in the Strategic Planning Report.)
Altoona College provides a university degree in a small college setting, 从而将小型学院的教学和服务标准与大学的研究和学术活动结合起来. An understanding of this dual role is essential to the tenure and promotion process at Altoona College. Innovative solutions to the challenges inherent in this special combination are encouraged.
Levels of Review
每位阿尔图纳学院的教员都在学院的一个学术部门任职, currently: Arts and Humanities; Mathematics and Natural Sciences; Business and Engineering; Education, Human Development and Social Sciences; and the Library. 阿尔图纳学院对终身教职和/或晋升候选人的初步审查在学术部门层面进行. It is at the academic division level that specific criteria are presented and evaluated. 因此,每个学术部门可以进一步确定终身教职和晋升的具体标准,以符合大学和阿尔图纳学院制定的一般标准. 大学级别的审查将使更广泛的教师和行政判断承担,还将监督学术部门政策和程序的质量和公平性的一般标准.
Criteria for Tenure and Promotion
当阿尔图纳学院的教职员工符合十大网投平台信誉排行榜政策(AC23)规定的标准时,他们就有资格获得终身教职和/或晋升。. With the exception of Altoona Library faculty, the criteria for this evaluation embrace three distinct but interrelated areas: the scholarship of teaching and learning; the scholarship of research and creative accomplishments; and service and the scholarship of service to the University, society, and the profession. 对图书馆员的评价包括第四个标准:图书馆工作的能力和有效性,详见《十大网投平台信誉排行榜》. The Altoona College values continuing activities in each of these areas.
A candidate for tenure and/or promotion to Associate Professor must meet the criteria described below in the areas of 1) teaching; 2) research and creative accomplishments; and 3) service. 候选人还应在教学或研究和创造性成就类别中至少一个类别中表现出优异的成就, or very good performance in both of these categories. Similarly, candidates for promotion to Associate Librarian must meet the criteria specified for 1) librarianship, 2) teaching, 3) research and creative accomplishments, and 4) service, 并进一步被期望在图书馆工作或研究和创造性成就的至少一个类别中表现出色,或在这两个类别中都表现出色. In accordance with AC23, 他们的假设是,对助理教授或图书馆员的终身教职做出积极的决定,就足以保证他们晋升为副教授或图书馆员. In exceptional cases, 如果委员会或行政人员强烈认为某个人应获得终身教职而不应晋升, the burden is on that committee or administrator to show why promotion is not warranted.
For promotion to Professor or Librarian, 候选人必须在晋升为副教授或副图书馆员时展示出显著的成就. The candidate must show continued effectiveness as a teacher and, as appropriate, librarian; ongoing service to the University, the society, and the profession; and a level of research and/or creative accomplishments sufficient to earn a national reputation for excellence.
Elaboration of the Three Basic Criteria for Tenure and Promotion
- The scholarship of teaching and learning. In accordance with our mission, Altoona College highly values the teaching and advising roles of its faculty. Faculty members must possess an ongoing commitment to teaching and in particular, must demonstrate success in communicating their specialized knowledge to students. This commitment and communication are essential to the educational process. 该领域的有效性将主要通过学生和教师同事以课程和建议评估的形式提供的意见来衡量, peer evaluations, student interviews, letters from former students, evaluation of course syllabi and other course materials, and any other means that will attest to the candidate’s teaching and advising effectiveness.
- The scholarship of research and creative accomplishments. The vitality of the faculty, both collectively and individually, depends upon ongoing research or creative accomplishments. Such accomplishments are usually demonstrated through publication, exhibition, or performance. 在这一领域的其他成就的展示可能包括在专业会议上的演讲, obtaining grants, participation in professional seminars and workshops, 由在候选人所在领域有丰富知识的专业领导出具的外部评估信, outreach activities utilizing the candidate’s expertise, and the development of new courses and academic programs.
Altoona College encourages innovative, interdisciplinary ways for faculty to realize professional growth and achievement in these areas. 在这些领域的任何成就的展示最终都应该产生或提高十大网投平台信誉排行榜以外的专业人士对教师专业知识的认可. Because of the demands made by teaching responsibilities and because of campus limitations, 阿尔图纳学院教师对研究和学术成果的定量期望必须不同于那些强调研究任务的地区的教师. However, similar qualitative expectations should apply to all locations. - Service and the scholarship of service to the University, society, and the profession. 阿尔图纳学院将服务记录视为候选人致力于推进学院和大学使命的证据. This service usually takes the form of committee work, participation in governance bodies, administrative support work, service to student groups, and professionally related service to the public. 阿尔图纳学院希望这一服务记录最终将包括各级领导职位:学术部门, college, university, and professional organizations. 当选的主要责任职位被视为候选人的服务赢得其同事尊重的证据.
Approved, June 10, 1997
Revised, January 21, 2003
Updated with revised “AC” policy references, January 12, 2018
Editorial revisions approved by Altoona College Faculty Senate, March 16, 2023