
Advancement Overview for Assistant Professors and Assistant Teaching Professors
Advancement information for assistant professors and assistant teaching professors.
Topics covered & scheduled offerings
Audience
Assistant professors and Assistant Teaching Professors.
Topics Covered
This informal session helps participants understand many of the policies and procedures in academic personnel reviews, including leaves of absence and impact of leaves on advancement.
Topics include review eligibility and expectations, types of review, and leaves of absence and impact of leaves on advancement. The sessions are informal and faculty will be able to ask questions pertinent to their own mid-career review, tenure review, eight-year limit, leave eligibility, or other related topic.
Scheduled Offerings
Workshops are typically offered in late May, after the annual CALL. To sign up, please use the link below and select the workshop(s) you would like to attend. A calendar invite and Zoom link will be sent prior to the workshop.
2024 Advancement Overview Workshops for Assistant Professors & Assistant Teaching Professors
For more information, please contact Ibukun Bloom (ijbloom@ucsc.edu) in the Academic Personnel Office.
Description
Presenter: Ibukun Bloom, Academic Personnel Office
Purpose: To help you understand the academic personnel review process including:
- When a review takes place (time at rank and step; quarters of service)
- Why a review takes place (reappointment, merit and salary advancement)
- Leaves of Absences
- What happens during a review (the review process)
Please let us know if there is an accommodation that will enable or enhance your participation in this workshop. You may contact my at ijbloom@ucsc.edu if you have a specific accommodation need.
Workshop Materials & Agenda
1. Introductions
Getting to know one another.
2. Academic Advancement and Salaries
Timing of Reviews
- Eligibility for Reappointment and Merit: “Time at Rank and Step.”
- Mid-Career Appraisal and Tenure: “Quarter Clock” or “Tenure Clock.”
- Tenure Track Illustration.
- Advancement Review Types & Review Periods Summary.
- UC-wide Criteria for Advancement (APM 210 – Review and Appraisal Committees).
3. Leaves of Absence – Including Sabbatical & Family Accommodations for Childbearing and Childrearing
4. Stopping the Eight Year Clock – for Chairs
5. Academic Personnel Review Process
Personnel Review Overview
- Flow Chart
- Checklist to Assure Fairness.
- Document Inventory Matrices.
- Bylaw 55 Voting Rights.
- Biobibliography Guidelines.
- Confidential & Non-Confidential Information.
- CAP’s Top 10 Tips for Faculty Preparing Personnel Files.
- Preliminary Assessment: If denial of tenure (CAPM 410.220) or non-reappointment (CAPM 404.220).
6. Resources
The Senate Faculty Resource page provides information about policies and procedures, compensation, advancement and leaves.
Further questions may be directed to Ibukun Bloom (ijbloom@ucsc.edu) in the Academic Personnel Office.