Appointment, Promotion and Tenure Materials and Resources
Additional materials and resources pertaining to appointments and advancement for CUIMC faculty can be found below. We encourage faculty to check back frequently for updated materials.
General
The Offices of the Senior Vice President for Faculty Affairs and Career Development at CUMC and the Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity and Inclusion developed this guide in collaboration with the Provost’s Advisory Council for the Enhancement of Faculty Diversity. This guide was developed to help academic leaders and faculty members who wish to use mentoring as a strategy to facilitate faculty success. Specifically, this guide was written to inform three key constituencies:
- Schools/departments wishing to implement formalized mentoring programs for faculty
- Faculty who wish to act as mentors to junior faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students
- Faculty who need or wish career guidance in addition to, or in the absence of, formal school/ departmental mentoring programs
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The Office of Faculty Affairs is the administrative arm of Academic Affairs. It handles all process-oriented issues for the faculty, researchers, post-docs, and student officers. It's responsible for ensuring compliance with university statutes and with state and federal law. Faculty Affairs provides support both for faculty and departmental administrators in administrative processes for faculty, officers of research and student officers.
Tenure
The Columbia University Faculty Handbook provides essential information about policies that govern aspects of academic life at Columbia University, including appointment and promotion processes and policies, leaves, and other policies relevant to officers of instruction and research.
The University and Barnard College (excepting the Faculty of Law and Teachers College), follows a regular system of review by an ad hoc committee whenever a school or department recommends a candidate for tenure. This review is conducted whether or not the nominee is already an officer of the University. The purpose of this system is to ensure that the same standards of judgment are applied to all appointments to tenure, regardless of the school or department originating the nomination, and thereby to secure a faculty of exceptional quality and distinction throughout the University.
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"at CUMC" Track
This document provides full-time faculty in the “At CUMC” track and their departments with information about the steps needed when considering promotion. The document should:
- Serve as a framework for describing what data should be assembled for the promotion process.
- Provide guidance and suggestions on how faculty can work towards preparation of their promotion dossier. Specifically, information is provided to faculty to help optimize the organization of the dossier and the description of their qualitative and quantitative academic achievements and contributions.
- Help faculty to think strategically about their career development plans well before consideration for promotion.
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The personal statement should be a narrative support of the CUIMC enhanced CV. It allows faculty to capture the impact, value and direction of their professional contributions, as well as to synthesize their interests, progression and achievements in a chronological or thematic narrative.
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This document includes language excerpted from Personal Statements of faculty in their promotion to ranks of Associate Professor or Professor. Examples are provided for guidance in writing, such as for formulating one’s ideas or encapsulating development, accomplishments and values. Examples here are not intended as required language or to cover all issues or areas.
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Part-time Pathways
Workshops and Professional Development
In this brown bag series, the leaders of the Committee of Appointments and Promotion, who are directly involved in the promotion process, will discuss criteria for promotion and how faculty can optimize their academic profiles.
"Preparing for Tenure"(link is external and opens in a new window)
This session focuses on specific ways in which faculty who are on tenure track or who are thinking of moving to tenure track can prepare for a positive review. Chairs and members of the CUIMC COAP provide strategies on how to prepare for tenure. A Q&A session follows.
"Promotion Process on the 'at CUMC' Title Track "(link is external and opens in a new window)
These sessions review the criteria for promotion in each track. Faculty have the opportunity to ask the two chairs of the Committee of Appointments and Promotions questions about the processes and timelines for promotions at CUIMC.
