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Actual 'external recognition' portions of e-forms in recent successful promotions to full professor

Requirements for promotion from associate to full professor are:

(a) Ongoing excellence in a significant program of education (and/or administration, if you are a CE) and clinical activity [if you are a clinician] and/or administration

(b) Significant progress beyond that justifying promotion to associate professor

(c) External recognition as being among the leading figures in your field, discipline, or specialty.

[Please also view the companion page, in which three recent departmental chairs present their advice].

Many faculty seeking promotion to this rank (and their mentors) continue to be uncertain about what level of external recognition is sufficient for promotion. COAP addresses this issue in two ways, first by considering the reports from external references. These are confidential and cannot be posted here. The second way is by scrutinizing invitations to speak and serve outside this institution. To illustrate the kinds and quantity of activity that may suffice, links are provided below to the candidate's portion of e-forms submitted as part of actual recent successful promotions cases. While these postings may be helpful in exemplifying the level of achievement that is necessary, please read the following disclaimer carefully:

Disclaimer: The following information is drawn from materials prepared by candidates for promotion to full professor. It is intended to illustrate activities and materials that might support promotion. In using these materials, please note the following:

*The Provost (and, in some cases, the President) are the University officers authorized to approve promotions. All levels of review below these officers are advisory.

*Only Departments are empowered to propose promotions, and the Divisional Dean is charged with transmitting such proposals to the Provost or returning them to the Department.

*The judgment of the Department, Dean, and Provost will therefore be critical to assessing qualification for promotion.

*Materials considered by the Department, Dean, and Provost will also (and always) include confidential evaluations obtained from outside the University. Materials considered by the Provost will include the confidential evaluations of the Dean and Department, and those considered by the Dean will include the confidential evaluations of the Department.

*Thus, the following materials are ONLY PART of a complete proposal for promotion, whereas promotion is based on the ENTIRE proposal. Therefore, it should not be assumed that a record comparable to that below will necessarily result in promotion, or that a record not comparable to that below will fail to result in promotion. The Departmental Chair is likely to be the best source of advice as to whether promotion is feasible and, when it is not, what additional activity may result in qualification for promotion.

*This document has been prepared as a tool for use by associate professors in the Division of the Biological Sciences. Other individuals who may find it informative are Department Chairmen, Section Heads, Committee Chairmen, senior faculty and potential recruits. Its intent is to help guide individuals and their departments as they think about promotion to Professor. This document is not intended to list the elements that every promotion proposal will be expected to address. The following information is presented for information purposes only and is not intended to create any contract or agreement, and its contents are subject to addition, deletion, and change without prior notice.

FAQ:

Q: I have a better record of external recognition than many of those below. Why aren't I being promoted?

A: First, promotion proposals can come only from departments and not this office; ask your chair why. Second, remember that promotion decisions are based on multiple kinds of evidence, of which 'record of external recognition' is only one.

Q: I am 'stuck in a rut' and can't seem to get the external recognition I need. What can I do about this?

A: First, you may volunteer – to run for office in professional societies, to serve as a reviewer or an editor, to serve on a study section, to organize a meeting or component of a meeting, to speak outside the institution, etc. If you are uneasy about volunteering yourself, as a colleague, mentor, or your chair to recommend you. Second, attend national meetings of your relevant professional society and network. Third, ask your chair, section chief, and/or mentor(s) for advice.

Q: I am doing a very good job here. Why isn't that enough for promotion?

A: Doing a good job here is necessary for promotion to full professor, but not sufficient. Promotion to full professor requires that you be among the leading figures in your area, which means you need to be known by the other leading figures in your area.

Q: Why are ONLY the following posted?

A: The information is only posted when it is readily available from e-forms, and eforms have been in use only since late 2004. Also, materials are posted only when permission of the promoted faculty member has been granted.

Q: What are the requirements for regional, national, and international recognition?

A: We no longer use this terminology. Some fields are largely restricted to this country; in them, 'international recognition' would be meaningless. A better guideline would be "comparable to the following":

Baroody, Fuad (Surgery) | Publications

Bishop, Douglas (Radiation & Cellular Oncology) | Publications

Burnet, Deborah (Medicine) | Publications

Corey, Jacquelynne (Surgery) | Publications

DiRienzo, Anna (Human Genetics) | Publications

Funaki, Brian (Radiology) | Publications

Glick, Benjamin (Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology) | Publications

Ho, Robert (Organismal Biology & Anatomy) | Publications

Josephson, Michelle (Medicine) | Publications

Karzcmar, Gregory (Radiology) | Publications

Klock, Allan (Anesthsia & Critical Care) | Publications

Lin, Anning (Ben May) | Publications

Mason, Peggy (now Neurobiology) | Publications

Montag, Anthony (Pathology) | Publications

Murray, Patrick (Medicine) | Publications

O'Connor, Michael (Anesthesia & Critical Care) | Publications

Pan, Xiaochuan (Radiology) | Publications

Peabody, Terrance (Surgery) | Publications

Salgia, Ravi (Medicine) | Publications

Shalhav, Arieh (Surgery) | Publications

Sosnick, Tobin (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology) | Publications

Stadler, Walter (Medicine) | Publications

Stern, Scott (Medicine) | Publications

Tang, Wei-Jen (Ben May Department for Cancer Research) | Publications

Turner, Jerry (Pathology) | Publications

van Besien, Koen (Medicine) | Publications

Wang, Chyung-Ru (Pathology) | Publications

White, Steven (Medicine) | Publications

Wootton, Tim (Ecology & Evolution) | Publications

Worcester, Elaine (Medicine) | Publications

More to come

[Next to each link to external recognition is a link to publications indexed in PubMed (which receive credit but are not required in the Clinician-Educator track)]