Dr. Rosalyn | Promotion and Tenure Oh My
If you work with me and we've chatted over the last six months then you know I have no burning desire to turn in my dossier. It feels tedious to pull it all back together even though I know it's just another gate keeping step and academia is full of gate keeping steps. I don't like talking about myself so blowing smoke up my own behind is not something I'm skilled at. As I work through more and more pieces of it I'm wondering two things primarily. The first being who thought of this process and why. It's four to six years worth of material to review for an ever increasing series of people. I'm lucky in the sense that I don't need outside reviewers, yeah for NTT positions, but it's the same level of work. What is your teaching philosophy, how is that displayed in your syllabi, course plans, course modifications, development of new courses? What have you done in terms of service? Why do we care, why does it matter, who did it benefit, was it just enough or more than enough? How have you worked to improve as a teacher, what did you do exactly, how can we see that in your teaching, what matters in terms of your long-term growth? How have you worked with students outside of the classroom? How did that work benefit them? How can you document that? Have any of them dropped off messages saying you rocked? Well yes and no. Most just tell me cause I'm always in my office so leaving a note isn't necessary. Can't use those in the dossier though and can't ask them to email those messages now because they have to be unsolicited.
No one believes that I won't get promoted provided I submit the dossier. What I've done over five years should merit it but the simple knowledge of what has transpired isn't enough. I have to write a compelling enough case that the P&T committee upon receiving all of my documents go yep we got you and you're good. I started working on bits and pieces of this process as my mother got sick last month. I continue to try to hammer at bits and pieces more because she's having surgery this week and then I'm not sure what the recovery process will be but I'm anticipating more of daughter as nurse time along with summer teaching, application review, admissions of students, getting books for the fall, redoing syllabi, presenting at a conference, hosting orientation, back to school meetings and convocation, and so on and so forth.
On the upside it's due on September 1st so regardless of what I have pulled together it will be out of my hands on that date. That seems like a long time from now but given that's it's already June basically and it felts like this beast of a year just began I'm sure it will fly by and then my continued fate will be up to my department, dean, P&T committee, EVCAA, Chancellor, and system board. Sometime around April I'll either be waving a I get to keep my job letter or I get to find a new place to live letter. Either way though I'm going to a concert at the end of April and it will be an amazing celebration of either outcome.
No one believes that I won't get promoted provided I submit the dossier. What I've done over five years should merit it but the simple knowledge of what has transpired isn't enough. I have to write a compelling enough case that the P&T committee upon receiving all of my documents go yep we got you and you're good. I started working on bits and pieces of this process as my mother got sick last month. I continue to try to hammer at bits and pieces more because she's having surgery this week and then I'm not sure what the recovery process will be but I'm anticipating more of daughter as nurse time along with summer teaching, application review, admissions of students, getting books for the fall, redoing syllabi, presenting at a conference, hosting orientation, back to school meetings and convocation, and so on and so forth.
On the upside it's due on September 1st so regardless of what I have pulled together it will be out of my hands on that date. That seems like a long time from now but given that's it's already June basically and it felts like this beast of a year just began I'm sure it will fly by and then my continued fate will be up to my department, dean, P&T committee, EVCAA, Chancellor, and system board. Sometime around April I'll either be waving a I get to keep my job letter or I get to find a new place to live letter. Either way though I'm going to a concert at the end of April and it will be an amazing celebration of either outcome.
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