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Professorships

Professorships

PROFESSORSHIP CASE

Recommendation for appointment of a current faculty member as a University Professor should come forward to the Dean in the same manner as a promotion with support of the TPC ______. In accordance with _____ section 3.8, the Dean may waive requirements for external referees. To appoint a new appointee requires six letters of reference and the recommendation of the TPC.

Background

TBC

Authorities

TBC

RRSDA's

Personnel Files

Documents for Review

Documents 

*Mandatory
Document RetentionRequired?Document Type in eTRACS

Office of Primary Responsibility (OPR)

i.e. decision maker in the process

Access 

ie. Faculty Department level, Faculty Dean's office level, everyone at Dean's office  level outside own faculty
Total Retention PeriodRRSDA

Board of Governors Final Approval/President’s Letter




Final Approval of Professorship



University Appointments Committee decision letter




University Appointments Committee decision letter for Professorship



Dean’s recommendation letter




Recommendation Letter for Professorship



TPC recommendation letter 




Recommendation Letter for Professorship



Additional information from Faculty member in response to any recommendation




Additional Information response to any recommendation



Materials and timeline notifications




Materials and timeline notifications



Written application request for appointment




Application for Professorship Appointment



Statements for research, teaching, service




Research and Teaching Statements



Publications, research in progress




Publications or Research in Progress



Other information – percentage of contribution, citation count, ranking/quality of journals, special teaching preparation, committee/administrative responsibilities, letters of support for teaching/research




Supplementary Information



Documents relating to referee selection - lists of possible external referees, rank ordered lists of 8 external referees




Referee Selection Documents



Correspondence with external referees (requests for participation, instruction letters to confirmed referees, thank you letters)




Correspondence with external referees



Reference Letters




Reference Letter



Anonymized versions of reference letters




Anonymized Reference Letter 



Teaching information including detailed teaching evaluations prepared by students, teaching load and exam/assignment information, summaries of teaching survey and grade distributions.




Summary of Teaching Information













































Faculty/Department Level Documents




















Electronic Folders & File Naming Conventions

The electronic folder can be labelled as the sample below:

2019-2020 

(TBC)



File Naming Convention

Lastname_Firstname_ApptType_DocType_Dept/Faculty_YYYYMMDD

e.g. Doe_John_ASP_CV_Beedie_20210714

Business Cases for Document Retention

(TBD - to discuss with FERM Working Group - note for reviewers, post your business cases in this section as to rationale for retaining documents and a length of time to keep them if known)

Working Group Questions

Questions to be explored when reviewing the document checklists:



Access Control Questions



Retention Questions



Office of Primary Responsibility



File Managers/Responsibility of Records



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