Purdue University Calumet
GUIDELINES FOR PROMOTION

Purdue University Calumet  has a threefold mission:

• to provide its students with a liberal education which will prepare them for life and for the professions;
  
• to provide career-oriented curricula which lead to certificates, associate degrees, baccalaureate degrees, and master’s degrees;
  
• and to provide programs that meet the professional, cultural and general education needs of the community. 

Faculty excellence is essential to this mission.  The University relies on its faculty members to maintain, create, and distribute knowledge in their fields of expertise. Consequently, the professional duties of faculty go well beyond teaching, encompassing both scholarship and service.  The contributions of a faculty member may well be integrated among teaching, scholarship, and service, since many professional activities contribute to more than one of these.  Promotion committees should therefore evaluate candidates for promotion based on professional impact, using separate contributions in the three areas of teaching, scholarship, and service as guidelines only. 

The following criteria are intended to set minimum promotion standards for Purdue University Calumet.

Teaching

Teaching at the University refers to the entire area of student-faculty interaction for educational purposes.  Faculty members who excel in teaching guide and motivate students, maintain scholarship through sustaining breadth and depth of knowledge, and continually strive to improve methods and context of teaching.

Scholarly Activity

Scholarly activity at the University refers to the broad area of research, scholarship, and creative endeavor.  Scholarly activity relevant to the area of specialization is carried out, and the results are disseminated by publication, invited presentation, juried show, artistic production, or other appropriate methods, thereby ultimately achieving meritorious recognition in the field.

Service

Service refers to contributions to the University through institutional, community, or professional service.  Institutional service refers to leadership in governance responsibilities or other University affairs. Community service refers to significant public service contributions related to a faculty member’s discipline. Professional service refers to experience as a highly regarded advisor to government or industry, or showing leadership in professional, technical, or scholarly societies.

APPLICATION OF CRITERIA FOR PROMOTION

Exceptions to these criteria should be made only in unusual cases for very strong candidates.

Assistant Professor

Promotion to Assistant Professor is usually based upon potential.  The candidate should have completed a doctoral program or other appropriate terminal degree and demonstrated professional competency.  There should be clear indication that the individual is a successful teacher and will grow in professional stature.  Promotion to this rank is based upon strength in teaching.

Associate Professor 1

Promotion to Associate Professor  is based upon actual performance as well as increased realization of potential.  Above all, the individual, while maintaining effectiveness in teaching, should be growing technically and professionally.  Promotion to this rank is based upon excellence in either teaching or scholarship,  together with strength in the other, and with active participation in service.  Promotion will not be considered before the completion of four years in rank.  The Associate Professorship is a rank of high academic position and in many cases will be a terminal rank.

Professor

Promotion to Professor is based on recognition of the individual by professional peers as an authority in the field of specialization, and by associates and students as a capable teacher.  A candidate will have demonstrated a consistently high level of competence in teaching.  Promotion to this rank is based on excellence in at least one of the three areas together with strengths in both of the other areas.  Where the excellence lies in teaching, the candidate will be recognized for an outstanding contribution to the University’s educational program through an effective blend of interaction with students, professional growth, curricular development, and course content and methodology.  Where the excellence lies in scholarly activity, the candidate will have made important and recognized contributions in scholarly activities and will be recognized as a leader in educational or professional circles on a state or national level. For excellence in service, the candidate will be recognized on the campus for outstanding contributions to the programs of the University and the candidate will have attained a reputation at the regional, state, or national level for outstanding contributions to professional organizations or agencies, government,  or industry.

Promotion will not be considered before the completion of five years in rank.

1 Academic tenure is in immediate effect upon promotion to this rank

 

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