This article describes IUPUI’s institutional steps towards rewarding open access scholarship in the promotion and tenure process.
Policies
IUPUI Promotion and Tenure Guidelines
This document outlines updated criteria to assess staff contributions in the area of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and open access, introduced to better reward these efforts in promotion, tenure-track and merit assessments at Indiana University. It also mentions such qualities like interrelated activities and accomplishments; independence, innovation, and initiative; teamwork, as areas to be considered in these evaluations.
Guidelines for Preparing and Reviewing Promotion and Tenure Dossiers
Indiana University has created guidelines for promotion and tenure dossiers. This guide outlines many different parameters for the preparation of promotion and/or tenure including a wide variety of criteria to assist in these deliberations.
GFC Academic Staff Criteria & Processes Handbook
In 2021, University of Calgary created the Academic Staff Criteria and Processes Handbook to inform promotion and tenure of faculty and research staff included a line committing to DORA. The handbook also includes criteria regarding knowledge engagement and knowledge transfer, being rewarded in assessments, among other criteria.
Rewarding robust and reproducible research
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin introduced five new application criteria for professorships in 2017 to promote robust and reproducible research. This post highlights the goals in which these criteria are to help achieve regarding recruiting, hiring and evaluation processes.
Senior Academic Promotions Call 2020
Guidelines for senior academic promotion policy at Trinity College have been established. This doucment provides examples of the criteria to be considered in a candidate’s potential promotion at Trinity College.
Senior Academic Promotions Procedure: Procedure no. 57
Trinity College has updated their senior academic promotions procedure which aims to ensure fairness, transparency, and equality of opportunity regarding promotion procedure. This resource outlines this procedure and notes Trinity College’s expectation to expand their contributions to education and research over time.
Promotion Profile and Procedure for Professor 1
This document describes new criteria and procedure for promotion to full professorship at Utrecht University. The change is part of a wider reform ‘Recognition and Rewards’ and is built around Utrecht’s new academic careers model called TRIPLE, which stands for team spirit, research, impact, professional performance, leadership and education, i.e. areas that the new assessment system is meant to value more systematically than before.
Academic Promotion Criteria for 2019-2020
This document outlines the changes in the professorial promotion criteria introduced at the University of Glasgow in 2019 to put more attention on evidence of collegiality and commitments to societal impact and open research.
Recruiting for Excellence
This packet from University of Zurich provides information on fair assessment of job candidates and how to recognize and avoid biases, specifically gender bias, during the hiring process.