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Work Plan Outline

The document outlines the annual faculty work plan process, providing guidance on goal setting in teaching, scholarship, professional development, and campus citizenship for different career stages from early-career to Professor. It recommends faculty set attainable annual goals aligned with longer career goals and department standards for tenure and promotion.

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Work Plan Outline

The document outlines the annual faculty work plan process, providing guidance on goal setting in teaching, scholarship, professional development, and campus citizenship for different career stages from early-career to Professor. It recommends faculty set attainable annual goals aligned with longer career goals and department standards for tenure and promotion.

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Outline for

Annual Faculty
Work Plans

A key step in the faculty evaluation process is the development and submission each Spring of an
annual work plan for each faculty member. Department chairs are then charged with reviewing
these plans and providing feedback. The expectation is that faculty will set attainable annual
goals that allow them to make progress on larger career goals. Faculty should also develop
discrete goals within each of the four categories of faculty work: teaching, scholarship,
professional development, and campus citizenship.
Early-career faculty members—whose larger goal is attaining tenure—should set specific annual
goals reflecting the A&S weighting of work across the categories, with greatest emphasis on
improving or maintaining teaching excellence, then on developing and disseminating scholarship
or creative work, then lastly on professional development and campus citizenship. Goals that do
not help the faculty member achieve this weighted profile should be revised.
The picture may be more complicated for the faculty member progressing towards promotion to
Professor. The College does not stipulate a particular weighting of the four categories for this
promotion; rather it expects good-to-excellent performance across all categories with none
standing out as deficient. Accordingly, a broad range of diverse goals may be quite acceptable, or
the emphasis of the goals may shift among the four categories from year to year leading up to the
promotion application. Consultation with the department chair or a senior colleague will be very
useful in situations like this.
For faculty members at the rank of Professor, the larger career goals may be more varied still.
One may, for instance, strive to play an influential role in his/her professional association.
Another might aspire to write a new textbook or laboratory manual. Or, one could choose to
reinvent her/his teaching identity by developing several new courses. Suitable goals for the main
areas of faculty work exist for each of these. Equally appropriate are goals aimed at maintaining
the levels of excellence one demonstrated in order to be promoted to Professor.
The annual work plan should thus follow this outline:
1. Current career goal 4. Goals for Professional Development
– e.g., attaining tenure, promotion to Professor, – e.g., maintain membership in professional
successful completion of NSF grant association, publish a book review or serve on
editorial board
2. Goals for Teaching
– e.g., develop a new course, improve discussion 5. Goals for Campus Citizenship
leading skills, infuse technology in classroom – e.g., maintain current service level in department,
– goals here should respond to feedback in student serve on University-wide committee; develop a
or peer reviews or information from workshops community outreach program

3. Goals for Scholarship / Creative Work 6. Longer Range Plans (3-7 year horizon)
– e.g., submit article manuscript to x journal, – e.g., identify new research project before the next
present poster at x conference sabbatical in x years, complete book on current
project in x years
– goals here should ideally respond to stated
department standards for tenure or promotion

Office of the Dean April, 2013

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