Preparing for Promotion, Tenure, and Annual Review: A Faculty Guide

This guide to helping faculty prepare for professional review, whether an annual event or at a key moment in their career, willhelp make this often stressful and confusing experience lesschallenging and provide faculty a sense of mastery over theprocess. It shows faculty how to plan ahead by learning the rules, getting organized, developing a line of research, collectingbaseline data, and fostering interpersonal relationships. It thengives practical advice and examples on documenting one's workin all areas of teaching and scholarship.

The second edition of this best-selling book features some newmaterials designed to help faculty prepare for a major professionalreview, including post-tenure reviews. New areas covered are howto

• Document teaching with technology,
• Manage changing guidelines and policies
• Use annual review materials as the foundation for aprofessional portfolio

In addition to updating references and resources, the author hasexpanded sections on scholarship, teaching and advising, how tobest document faculty role and impact as part of a team, and onassessing collegiality.

Appropriate for faculty at large universities and smallcolleges, public or private institutions, and unionized campuses, this book enumerates important questions to be asked and the issuesthat should be considered as faculty approach the review process.Concrete resources, examples, references, and a faculty checklistmake this a practical tool for any instructor facing a professionalevaluation.