Departmental RTP Guidelines

University Policy S15-7 [pdf] allows departments to form RTP guidelines directed at college and University RTP committee members and administrators reviewing the department's RTP cases. The guidelines supplement University Policy S15-8 [pdf]'s criteria for 1) academic assignment, 2) service, and/or 3) Scholarly/Artistic/Professional (RSCA) so that reviewers outside the department will better understand what constitutes professional achievements for department faculty. Departments may focus guidelines on one or more of the three areas. They may also offer guidelines for subfields in the department. The University Library and Counseling and Psychological Services faculty are required to provide guidelines for academic assignment because teaching is not their primary assignment—their academic assignment guidelines are considered University Policy.

Department guidelines must be approved by the Professional Standards Committee of the Academic Senate and the Provost. All faculty creating, revising, or renewing Departmental RTP Guidelines shall complete the Departmental RTP Guidelines Course.

Guidelines must offer at least two inclusive hypothetical sample faculty profiles for each level of achievement (baseline, good, or excellent) within a given Category of Achievement. They may also add other sorts of documentation that could be expected to demonstrate professional achievement and estimate resources necessary to achieve each level of achievement. However, a department's guidelines cannot expand or restrict the Criteria and Standards of University Policy S15-8 [pdf]. Where there are perceived conflicts with department guidelines, higher level RTP reviewers are directed to follow S15-8 [pdf] over the guidelines.

Guidelines expire after 5 years. Expired Departmental RTP Guidelines are stored on this web page because they may still be effective for some faculty members. If guidelines expire during the candidate's period of review and are not renewed, revised, or replaced with new guidelines, the candidate may include the old guidelines or no guidelines. If guidelines change—revise or replace—during the candidate's period of review, the candidate shall include their choice of the old or the new guidelines. Only one set of guidelines may appear in the dossier, and reviewers are restricted to considering only included, approved guidelines.

All current Departmental RTP Guidelines are organized by college below.

College of Humanities and the Arts

College of Social Sciences

Counseling and Psychological Services

University Library