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C. Review <strong>and</strong> Promotion<br />

I. Institutional Support <strong>and</strong> Commitment <strong>to</strong> Continuous Improvement<br />

The continuing part-time faculty member will initiate application for promotion in rank <strong>to</strong> Ad-<br />

junct Assistant or Adjunct Associate Professor with his or her Department or Program Head. The<br />

Department or Program Head, in consultation with the department’s full-time <strong>and</strong> adjunct faculty<br />

<strong>and</strong>, as appropriate, other regular <strong>and</strong> adjunct faculty familiar with the c<strong>and</strong>idate’s qualifications,<br />

will evaluate the c<strong>and</strong>idate for promotion. Evaluation for promotion <strong>to</strong> Adjunct Assistant Profes-<br />

sor will be based on teaching effectiveness <strong>and</strong> professional involvement, with an emphasis on the<br />

former. Evaluation for promotion <strong>to</strong> Adjunct Associate Professor will be based on teaching effec-<br />

tiveness, professional involvement, curricular flexibility <strong>and</strong> the academic needs of the department.<br />

Following a departmental review, the Department or Program Head will either recommend or not<br />

recommend a promotion <strong>to</strong> the Dean of Faculty. The Dean of Faculty, after consultation with the<br />

Adjunct Review Committee <strong>and</strong> other appropriate members of the faculty <strong>and</strong> academic adminis-<br />

tration will make the final decision of the c<strong>and</strong>idate’s promotion in rank. Evaluation for promotion<br />

<strong>to</strong> Adjunct Professor will be based on, in addition the criteria for Adjunct Associate Professor, the<br />

demonstration of a significant professional record <strong>and</strong> excellence in teaching. Nomination for Ad-<br />

junct Professor status must be made by a Department or Program Chair, <strong>and</strong> will be reviewed by<br />

the Full Professor Committee of the Faculty Contract <strong>and</strong> Tenure Review Board.<br />

2) Development<br />

The School <strong>support</strong>s its faculty in the acquisition of new skills <strong>and</strong> knowledge through its award of<br />

travel <strong>and</strong> research grants, conference fees, teach-teaching awards, residencies, <strong>and</strong> project-specific<br />

<strong>support</strong>, as in the many GFRY projects developed in the AIADO department. In Fall 2010 Associate<br />

Professor Ellen Grimes has been named the Edi<strong>to</strong>r of publications for the ASCA. To <strong>support</strong> her con-<br />

tinued role in this position, the School has arranged a reduced course load for the next three aca-<br />

demic years. This arrangement is unique but typical of the efforts that SAIC administration makes <strong>to</strong><br />

<strong>support</strong> the growth <strong>and</strong> potential of its faculty. Other examples include the course release for Sterk<br />

<strong>and</strong> Pancoast in <strong>support</strong> of the Argonne program.<br />

SAIC annually distributes grants <strong>and</strong> monies <strong>to</strong>taling in excess of $350,000 <strong>to</strong> <strong>support</strong> the research,<br />

scholarship, <strong>and</strong> creative endeavors of its faculty. Faculty Enrichment Grants awarded on an insti-<br />

tution-wide level through the Deans Office <strong>to</strong>tal $75,000 for 2010–11. Travel <strong>and</strong> Research monies<br />

awarded by the Dean of Faculty on an individual basis <strong>to</strong> faculty <strong>to</strong>tal $100,000 for the 2010–11 year.<br />

The School awards up <strong>to</strong> ten Professor Research Days each year equivalent <strong>to</strong> $100,000; 25 two-<br />

week New Buffalo residencies equal <strong>to</strong> $3500 each, <strong>and</strong> the Krems residency recipient is provided<br />

with $1500 travel money in addition <strong>to</strong> housing in Austria as well as Faculty Enrichment funds. Indi-<br />

vidual departments have some funds <strong>to</strong> <strong>support</strong> their faculty though these budget allocations are<br />

determined on a departmental basis, <strong>and</strong> vary from department <strong>to</strong> department. The AIADO depart-<br />

ment, for example, has an annual fund of $20,000 or more <strong>to</strong> <strong>support</strong> its faculty, see details below.<br />

Below, descriptions of the complement of faculty development opportunities are enumerated,<br />

including: sabbaticals, paid leaves, professor research days, enrichment grants, travel <strong>and</strong> research<br />

monies, <strong>and</strong> residences. Attention is given <strong>to</strong> highlight the ways in which AIADO faculty have availed<br />

themselves of these opportunities.<br />

a) Sabbatical<br />

Full-time, tenured faculty are eligible for their first sabbatical in the eighth year of service,<br />

<strong>and</strong> then accrue eligibility for subsequent sabbaticals every seventh year of full-time teach-<br />

ing. During a sabbatical, faculty are relieved of their teaching <strong>and</strong> administrative duties for a<br />

dedicated period of work <strong>and</strong>/or study <strong>to</strong> help sustain the excellence <strong>and</strong> professionalism of<br />

their teaching.<br />

65 | Spring 2011<br />

SECTION I Institutional Support <strong>and</strong> Commitment <strong>to</strong> Continuous Improvement

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