Promotion 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.

But what does that really mean, and how does one go about achieving it?

Please view the companion page, which presents the actual 'external recognition' portions of e-forms for recently-promoted full professors.

To provide some additional guidance and examples of how one might qualify for promotion, three full professors who were then departmental chairs volunteered to explain what each looked for in a full professor case.

Here are Quicktime movies of their explanations. Click on the Quicktime link to view:

Bruce Gewertz Surgery Quicktime

Neil Shubin Organismal Biology & Anatomy Quicktime

Ronald Thisted Health Studies Quicktime

[ Download free Quicktime Player]

Technical: The size of the video window is intentionally small to improve loading time. If you cannot hear the sound, please play the presentation on a computer equipped with speakers [and increase the volume].