Survival Skills for RPT

1. Survival Skills for RPT Larry A. Nielsen Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor larry_nielsen@ncsu.edu “provost” on the website and Katie Perry Senior Vice Provost katie_perry@ncsu.edu

2. Survival Skills for RPT RPT—Reappointment, promotion and tenure PTR—Post tenure review TRP—Temperature, respiration and pulse Don’t just survive—

3. Thrival Skills for RPT RPT—Reappointment, promotion and tenure PTR—Post tenure review TRP—Temperature, respiration and pulse Don’t just survive— THRIVE!

4. RPT • Myths • Process • Scholarship Cycle • Quadrant II • Thrival Skills

5. Myths of RPT • Extension/engagement doesn’t count, just research (and maybe teaching) • All that matters is pubs and bucks • Just keep pumping stuff out from your dissertation • They don’t read, they just count • I just got tenure, so here’s how to do it… • When I was your age…

6. Truths of RPT • We do it well at NC State • Faculty survey: • 85% think procedures are fair and consistent • 77% think standards are fair and consistent • National survey: • In top 4 of 31 doctoral universities • Clarity of process, criteria and standards • Clarity of expectations • Cited as a national model for RPT

7. Process for RPT UNC System University College Department Your Appointment and SME Website: http://www.provost.ncsu.edu/ promotion-tenure/

8. Process for RPT University Policy: Scholarlycontributions in an appropriate mix of these six realms must be -- both in fact and in faculty perceptions -- the principal criteria for decisions about faculty reappointment, promotion, and tenure. Practice is not enough.

9. Process for RPT University Policy: • demonstrated professional competence in the appropriate mix of the realms of responsibility • potential for future contributions • service to the university, the academic community, and society • the needs and resources of the university

10. Process for RPT Realms of Faculty Responsibility: • Teaching and Mentoring of Undergraduate and Graduate Students • Discovery of Knowledge through Discipline-Guided Inquiry • Creative Artistry and Literature • Technological and Managerial Innovation • Extension and Engagement outside the University • Service in Professional Societies and Service and Engagement within the University Itself

11. Process for RPT Joint Committee on the Scholarship of Extension and Engagement (2004): …is creative, collaborative intellectual inquiry with outcomes that are relevant, affordable, applied, communicated, validated and evaluated by peers.

12. Process for RPT Statement of Mutual Expectations (SME): Defines your expectations • Translates letter of offer into performance features • Negotiated between you and department head • Must be finished in first 12 months (signed by both) • Guides all reviews (annual, reappointment, tenure, promotion, and post-tenure)

13. Scholarship Cycle for RPT Generate idea Attract support Attract graduate student Produce something! Graduate student Peer acceptance

14. Process for RPT If you aren’t thriving… • Talk to your department head – NOW • Consult your mentors • Ask for an extension • Make sure your head and heart are working together • Get into Quadrant II – and stay there!

15. Quadrant II for RPT From Stephen Covey: Urgent Not Urgent Quadrant II Important Not Important

16. Thrival Skills for RPT • Engage your department head — regularly • Consult your SME — regularly • Seek mentor(s) – the right ones • Get the dissertation out — then leave it • Build a “portfolio of improvement” • Live in Quadrant II

17. Thrival Skills for RPT How can Larry and Katie help you?