Tenure and Promotion Handbook
This handbook provides guidance to support candidates, initiators, and other participants in the preparation of materials for tenure and promotion dossiers. Each section includes the relevant text of the Faculty Manual, and, where prescribed by the Manual, instructions from the Dean of the College for the preparation of selected items.
Confidentiality Considerations
Activities prior to the commencement of a candidacy
Department Statement on Significant Scholarly/Artistic Work OR Joint Statement of Expectations
Letters of guidance from previous comprehensive reviews
Candidate’s professional statement
Student/alumni reviews of teaching and advising
External reviews of Scholarly Artistic Work
Statements from St. Olaf colleagues outside the department
Reviews of administrative work, if applicable
Tenured members’ statements of recommendation and rationale