examples of tenure dossier review letters

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identification of those nominated reviewers identified by the faculty candidate who are unsuitable due to a real or perceived conflict of interest.

consideration of names proposed by senior faculty and DFRAC members in the same general area as the faculty candidate and,.

consideration of names suggested by the faculty candidate.

Each department should develop specific written guidelines for soliciting suggestions for reviewers and work to ensure the integrity of the process.

College associate deans should conduct a check-in with Department Chair/School Directors in late July/early August to see if any assistance is needed in getting the sufficient number of evaluation letters.

Department Chair/School Directors are responsible for properly managing this process and ensuring at least the minimum number is achieved in order to advance the dossier, as required, and shall seek well in advance assistance from the Dean to remedy any challenges such as insufficient number of reviewers.

The list should include sufficient in number of potential reviewers (that is typically seven to ten and five accept request) to yield at least the minimum number (4) of independent evaluation letters required to advance the dossier for consideration.

Responsibility for choosing external reviewers rests with the Department Chair, but should involve consultation with others, including the faculty candidate, senior faculty members and the DFRAC.Department Chair/School Directors shall document all reviewer nominations and the selection process on the required Worksheet for Outside Evaluators, which will be approved by the Dean and included in the candidate’s dossier.One of the chief purposes of promotion and tenure is to ensure that the university is making progress towards its strategic goals and aspirations, which cannot occur unless advice is continually solicited from those who represent aspirant institutions. Reviewers should be affiliated with a department or institution that is an aspirant for the department of the faculty candidate, for example, from Carnegie R1 or AAU institutions (including medical school colleagues as warranted).

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Reviewers that are not affiliated with an academic institution (for example, a researcher at a national laboratory) should have rank and experience commensurate with that of a full professor. The only exceptions to this should be reviewers who are acknowledged emerging leaders in the field though not yet at the rank of full professor. Reviewers should ideally hold full professor rank or equivalent and be currently active, productive researchers, scholars or artists.Rather than submitting external review letters, collaborators can be invited to submit collaborator letters of support that outline the significance of the independent contributions of candidates.

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Each reviewer should be asked to outline in the report any past professional and/or personal association that (s)he may have with the faculty candidate. Collaborators also include individuals who have worked closely with a candidate, where questions may arise about whether an independent assessment of the candidate’s achievements can be offered.

External reviewers should themselves be experts in the faculty candidate’s discipline, sub-field or area, and should not be a past mentor, dissertation advisor or a frequent or current (within last 5 years) collaborator, nor have a personal relationship with the candidate.

There shall be no less than four (4), and typically no more than seven (7), letters from independent external reviewers that evaluate the faculty candidate’s academic record in the dossier in order for the candidate to be considered for promotion or tenure.

Guidelines for Selecting External Reviewers At UTSA, external reviews are used to confirm the significance of results arising from the scholarly efforts of a faculty member, but are not intended to be conclusive elements of a promotion and tenure review. The purpose of using external reviews as a part of the promotion and tenure process is to advise the university as to the broader impact and value of a faculty member’s research/scholarly/ creative productivity to the discipline.

Letter to External Reviewers from the Provost related to COVID-19 Impacts.

Examples of tenure dossier review letters