Law Library Faculty Promotion and Tenure Packet Template

College of Law library faculty applying for promotion and/or tenure will use an online packet template in their case that includes the following form and file upload fields along with these provided instruction prompts.

Application for Promotion and/or Tenure

Your application is submitted in an online form at the beginning of your packet as further described.

Application Form required

To submit your application, draft the following information and then copy/paste into the provided form in this section of your packet:

• Applicant Name
• Application Type (Promotion and Tenure / Promotion Only / Tenure Only)
• Current Rank
• Department/School/Division
• Educational Background (Include name of institution and location, dates attended, and degree earned)
• Professional Experience (List institutions, rank or title, and dates of appointment concerning all professional positions in chronological order showing the most recent first. Include name of institution, rank/title, and appointment dates)
• Effective Date of Promotion/Tenure (Date Promotion / Tenure will become effective, if approved)
• NIU Employment Start Date
• Number of Years in Present Rank at NIU (Number of years must include the current academic year when the promotion and/or tenure application is reviewed at the university level)
• Number of years of service at NIU (Number of years must include the current academic year when the promotion and/or tenure application is reviewed at the university level)
• Number of years of full-time college-level teaching prior to NIU (Number of years of full-time college-level teaching in the rank of Assistant / Associate / Professor prior to joining NIU)
• Memorandum of Understanding (State whether this position is covered by an MOU that modifies promotion / tenure criteria or procedures)
• This is an early application (Yes / No)
• This is a short-track application (Yes / No)

Optional MOU optional

Please upload your optional MOU.

Recommended file naming convention for your MOU file upload:
LastName_FirstInitial_MOU

Curriculum Vitae

Upload a copy of your curriculum vitae (CV).

Candidate CV 1 required

Recommended file naming convention for your CV file upload:
LastName_FirstInitial_CV

Librarianship

Upload materials that demonstrate how you have met or exceeded librarianship criteria. While not required, you may choose to include a short self-reflection.

Librarianship Narrative up to 1 optional

Attach a brief self-evaluation of your librarianship contributions that summarizes the ways in which you believe they have met or exceeded the expectations set forth in university and college criteria.

Recommended file naming convention for your self-reflection/narrative file upload:
Librarianship_Narrative

Librarianship Materials 1+ required

Attach any librarianship materials you wish to include as part of your packet.

Recommended file naming convention for your teaching documentation file upload(s):
Course#_YEAR_SEMESTER_PREFIX_NUMBER_TITLE_TYPE
Course1_2024_Fall_UHHS_ Research Positioning And Grantspersonship Skills_Student Evaluations

Teaching

If your assignment involves teaching regularly scheduled classes, upload materials that demonstrate how you have met or exceeded teaching criteria. You may choose to include a short self-reflection. NOTE: If you assignment does not involve teaching regularly scheduled classes, you can skip this section.

Teaching Narrative up to 1 optional

Attach a brief self-evaluation of your librarianship contributions that summarizes the ways in which you believe they have met or exceeded the expectations set forth in university and college criteria.

Recommended file naming convention for your self-reflection/narrative file upload:
Teaching_Narrative

Teaching Materials

Attach any teaching materials you wish to include as part of your packet.

Recommended file naming convention for your teaching documentation file upload(s):
Course#_YEAR_SEMESTER_PREFIX_NUMBER_TITLE_TYPE
Course1_2024_Fall_UHHS_ Research Positioning And Grantspersonship Skills_Student Evaluations

Scholarly and Professional Development

Upload materials that demonstrate how you have met or exceeded scholarly and professional development criteria. While not required, you may choose to include a short self-reflection.

Scholarly and Professional Development Narrative up to 1 optional

Attach a brief self-evaluation of your scholarly and professional development work contributions that summarizes the ways in which you believe they have met or exceeded the expectations set forth in university and college criteria. Formal evidences of professional growth include:

• Acceptance for publication of articles and books
• Favorable reviews or citations of published work
• Election to office or committe status in regional, national or international scholarly or professional organizations
• Appointment to consultantship or editorship
• Invitation to review or evaluate the owrk of others
• Presentations to professional groups

Professional growth and development may be satisfactorily evidence in less formal ways. These include:

• Participation in professional activities outside the university in such a way as to merit recognition as an outstanding member of the professional community
• Advances study and participation iin seminars and workshops
• Selection for grants, fellowships, and awards

Recommended file naming convention for your self-reflection/narrative file upload:
Scholarship_Narrative

Scholarship and Professional Development Materials 1+ required

Attach any scholarship and professional development materials you wish to include as part of your packet.

Recommended file naming convention for your research documentation file upload(s):
TYPE#_YEAR_TITLE
Article1_2020_ Crowd Sourcing: Do Prototypical Peer Crowds Match Reality?

Recommended file naming convention for your research presentation file upload(s):
TYPE#_YEAR_TITLE
Presentation1_2020_Title of Presentation

Recommended file naming convention for your grant, fellowships, and leaves file upload(s):
TYPE#_YEAR_TITLE
Grant3_2021_ Title of Grant

Service

Upload materials that demonstrate how you have met or exceeded service criteria. While not required, you may choose to include a short self-reflection.

Service Narrative up to 1 optional

Attach a brief self-evaluation of your service contributions and the ways in which you believe they have met or exceeded the expectations set forth in university and college criteria.

Recommended file naming convention for your self-reflection/narrative file upload: Service_Narrative

Service Materials 1+ required

Recommended file naming convention for your service documentation file upload(s):
TYPE#_AY_Committee_Role
TYPE#_Date_Title_Location
Committee2_AY22-23_DPC_Member
Committee1_AY21-22_DepartmentCurriculum_Chair
Workshop5_Feb5_2023_Using AI in General Education Courses_CITL

Other Materials

Upload materials that do not fit any of the categories above.

Additional Materials optional

Attach any additional materials that do not fit any of the categories above.

Materials to Share with External Evaluators

This section is where you upload materials that are to be shared with your external evaluators. You do not need to attach your CV here, but you should attach a copy of all other materials that are to be shared with the external evaluators, even if it duplicates materials uploaded elsewhere.

Materials for External Evaluators 1+ required

Attach any materials to share with external evaluators, except for your CV.