Faculty Promotion Guidelines

• Memorandum from the Provost on Promotion Casebooks for Instructional, Research Professor, and Clinical Faculty  •  (PDF)
  July 30, 2021

• Memorandum from the Provost on Faculty Evaluation: Recognition of entrepreneurial, creative, and outreach activities  •  (PDF)
  July 17, 2021

• Outline of Procedures for Faculty Promotions

 

Attachments

• Attachment A (PDF) — Qualifications for Appointment and Promotion in the Several Faculties of University of Michigan

• Attachment B (PDF) — University of Michigan Bylaws: Section 5.23. Clinical Instructional Staff (revised June 2001); and University of Michigan Bylaws: Section 5.24. Research Scientists and Research Professors (revised October 2003)

• Attachment C (PDF) — Instructions for Instructional Faculty Promotion Recommendations

• Attachment D (PDF) — Sample Promotion Recommendation

• Attachment E (PDF) — CRLT Occasional Papers: The Teaching Portfolio

• Attachment G (PDF) — Sample Alphabetical Listing of External Reviewers Who Provided Letters

• Attachment H (PDF) — Statement of Understanding Regarding Responsibility for Bridging Support

Instructions for uploading promotion casebooks to Dropbox (PDF)

 

2021-22 promotion cycle

Use the following solicitation letter templates for the 2021-22 promotion cycle and include, as an attachment, a description of the particular track(s) on which the faculty member is being promoted:

• Attachment F-1 (MS Word) — Sample solicitation letter: Instructional tenure track promotion, non-interdisciplinary appointments
  Updated July 2021

• Attachment F-2 (MS Word) — Sample solicitation letter: Instructional tenure track promotion, interdisciplinary appointments
  Updated July 2021

• Attachment F-3 (MS Word) — Sample solicitation letter: Clinical Instructional track promotion
  Updated July 2021

• Attachment F-4 (MS Word) — Sample solicitation letter: Research Professor track promotion
  Updated July 2021