Promotion & Tenure
Process
- CBA - Review the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) articles related to your position type. These articles provide important information about promotion eligibility, required materials, and process.
- Article 20: Tenure
- Article 21: Promotions for Tenure-Earning and Tenured Faculty
- Article 22: Promotions for Library Faculty
- Article 23: Promotions for Instructors and Lecturers
- Article 24: Promotions for Clinical Faculty
- Guidelines - Determine whether your department or school has department-specific promotion and tenure guidelines.
- Eligibility - Identify when you are eligible to apply for promotion and tenure.
- Calendar - Review the promotion and tenure calendar.
- Notification - Notify your chair by April 15 that you will apply for promotion in the fall.
- Request Case - Contact Academic & Student Affairs to request a promotion case in Interfolio.
- Prepare Case - Prepare, compile, and upload your promotion materials in Interfolio. *Tenure-track candidates only: submit names of potential external reviewers to your chair; submit "Initial Submission" section of your promotion case separately during Spring/Summer so it can be shared with external reviewers.
- Submit Case - Submit your promotion case in Interfolio by the deadline on the P&T calendar.
Calendars
Guidelines
Third-Year Review
Tenure-earning faculty will undergo third-year review during Spring semester of their third year of tenure-earning service. A committee of departmental colleagues will provide a constructive appraisal of the faculty member's progress toward tenure. See CBA Article 20.7(b) for more information about third-year review.
Timeline
August / September |
Chair notifies tenure-earning faculty in their third year of the review and contacts Academic & Student Affairs (ASA) to create cases in Interfolio. |
Fall |
Chair assembles a third-year review committee composed of tenured department faculty and notifies ASA to add the committee in Interfolio. |
February / March | Faculty member submits case in Interfolio. |
By March 31 |
Department committee shares review letter with faculty member and notifies ASA that the review is completed. ASA closes the Interfolio case and marks it as review complete. |
Interfolio Guides
Promotion and Tenure Candidates- A Candidate's Guide to Populating and Submitting a Packet Using Interfolio
- View and Respond to Files Shared by a Committee (Rebuttal)
- External Review Process - Quick Reference for Chairs
- Requesting External Evaluations Through Interfolio (Video)
- External Evaluations (Instructions from Interfolio)
- Provide a Requested Evaluation (Instructions for External Reviewers)
Office of Faculty Excellence Resources
Contact
James RoartyAssistant Director, Faculty Review & Advancement
j.roarty@unf.edu
(904) 620-2710