Letter from Dean to President including:
• appointment title
• start date
• service period (9 or 12 months)
• salary
Chair's letter including:
• Chair's evaluation and recommendation
• Departmental vote: number of eligible
voting faculty and vote count (affirmative, negative abstentions,
absences)
Offer letter
3 letters of recommendation
Applicant flow and copy of job advertisement
Curriculum Vitae & Bibliography
UW Biography form
Affirmative Action Data Form
VISA documents as appropriate
Conviction/Criminal History Form (where applicable)
Washington State Patrol Form (where applicable)
Additional requirements for new
Joint and Adjunct Appointments:
Chair or Dean's letter from new joint or adjunct department
recommending the appointment
Concurrence from Chair of home department for adjunct appointment,
or from Dean of home department's school for a joint appointment
Faculty vote
Promotion & Tenure:
Letter from Dean to President including:
• School/College committee/council review and
recommendation
Chair’s letter including:
• Departmental vote: number of eligible voting
faculty and vote count (affirmative, negative abstentions, absences)
• Reason for the faculty decision
• Chair’s evaluation and recommendation
Department review committee report
Candidate’s response to department review
Candidate’s self assessment statement (UW Handbook, Vol
II, ch 24, section 24-54)
Curriculum Vitae & Bibliography
One copy of each of the candidate's submissions as evidence or
examples of professional growth and achievement
3-5 external evaluations – outside letters by recognized
contributors to their field
Evidence of teaching effectiveness (for titles that have teaching
responsibility)
• List of all courses taught at UW
• List of graduate students supervised, with
thesis topic, degree, dates
• Student evaluation forms
• Peer evaluations
• Chair's evaluation of overall teaching record
Additional Promotion & Tenure
requirements for Joint Appointments:
Letter from Chair of secondary unit including:
• Department vote
• Chair's recommendation
• Other pertinent materials (e.g. teaching evaluations,
department review committee report) as available
Additional Promotion & Tenure requirements for Adjunct
Appointments:
Letter of concurrence from Chair of secondary unit (no department
vote required)
Promotion & tenure requirements for affiliate or
clinical faculty:
Letter from Chair including:
• Statement of role played by candidate in the
department
• Documentation providing evidence of effective
service appropriate to that role
One external letter of evaluation
