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Excerpts from Policy HR23 Promotion and Tenure Procedures and Regulations

tenure sheets
Service to the University, the public and the profession

This section contains:

*Outreach service as a representative of the University (limit the list to those activities that use the candidate’s professional expertise)

  1. Participation in community affairs
  2. Service to governmental agencies at the international, federal, state and local levels
  3. Service to business and industry
  4. Service to public and private organizations
  5. Other

Research, creative accomplishments and scholarship

This section contains:

*Research and/or scholarly publications, including Cooperative Extension service bulletins and circulars
*Record of participation in, and description of, seminars and workshops (short description of activity, with titles, dates, sponsor, etc.); indication of role in seminar or workshop, e.g., student, invited participant, etc.
*Description of outreach or other activities in which there was significant use of candidate’s expertise (consulting, speaking engagements, services to government agencies, professional and industrial association, educational institutions, etc.)
*Funded projects, grants, commissions and contracts

Teaching ability and effectiveness

This section contains:

*List of courses taught in support of outreach-based instruction, including continuing and distance education, international programs, cooperative extension programs and clinical assignments
*Faculty input concerning the evaluation of teaching effectiveness, including any statements from colleagues who have visited the candidate’s classroom and evaluated his or her teaching or who are in good position to evaluate outreach-based instruction or advising
*Other evidence of resident and/or outreach-based teaching and advising effectiveness (e.g., performance of students in subsequent courses, tangible results and benefits derived by clientele, recipient of teaching awards)

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