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        • Faculty Promotion Instructions
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        • Guidelines for Joint Academic Appointments
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  • Initiatives
    • Disability Scholarship Initiative
    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategic Plan – Provost’s Office
    • Forthcoming
    • Interprofessional Health Education
    • Public Safety Task Force
    • Responding to Threats and Harassment of Faculty
    • Student Mental Health
    • Student Success
    • U-M 2024 Gender Salary Study
    • Past Initiatives
      • Early Tenure-Track Faculty Research Support initiative
      • Humanities Collaboratory
      • Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS)
      • Michigan Undergraduate Education in the Third Century
In This Section
  • About the Office
    • Laurie McCauley, Provost
    • Mission and Vision
    • News & Communications
    • Staff
      • Provost Office Staff Only (Intranet)
    • Reporting Units
      • Deans
    • Leadership Searches
  • Vice Provost Areas
    • Academic and Budgetary Affairs
      • Office of Budget and Planning
      • Faculty Budget Engagement Committee
      • Staff Budget Engagement Committee
    • Academic and Faculty Affairs
      • Faculty Handbook
      • Academic Human Resources
      • The ADVANCE Program
    • Academic Affairs – Graduate Studies
      • Cultural Collections Council
    • Arts and Humanities
    • Biosciences Initiative
    • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
    • Engaged Learning
      • Engaged Michigan
      • Global Michigan
    • Enrollment Management
    • Sustainability and Climate Action
    • Undergraduate Education
      • Associate Deans Group
      • CEW+
  • Resources & Policies
    • Faculty Resources
      • Conflicts of Interest & Commitment
      • Honors & Awards
        • Arthur F. Thurnau Professorships
        • Collegiate Professorships
        • Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award
      • Faculty Leadership Development
      • Funding Opportunities
        • Faculty Initiatives Program
        • King-Chavez-Parks Visiting Professors Program
      • Promotion & Tenure
        • Faculty Promotion Instructions
      • Recruitment, Hiring & Retention
        • Guidelines for Joint Academic Appointments
        • Dual Career Program
        • Family-Friendly Faculty Resources
      • Responding to Threats and Harassment of Faculty
      • The Well-Being Collective
      • Additional Faculty Resources & Policies
        • Policy on Faculty-Student Relationships
        • Use of Faculty Accounts
    • Calendars
    • Budget
    • Academic Program & Center Planning
      • New Degree Programs
        • MASU Meeting Dates
      • Centers & Institutes
        • Best Practices
        • List of Centers & Institutes
    • Online & Hybrid Program Planning
    • Integrated Space, Academic, & Capital Planning
      • Capital Planning
      • Office Space
      • Classroom Space
        • Classroom Reporting
      • Research Space
      • Space Requests & Needs
      • Building & Space Data
      • Resources & Tools
    • Student Resources
      • Student Emergency Funds
      • Outreach on Budgetary Matters
  • Initiatives
    • Disability Scholarship Initiative
    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategic Plan – Provost’s Office
    • Forthcoming
    • Interprofessional Health Education
    • Public Safety Task Force
    • Responding to Threats and Harassment of Faculty
    • Student Mental Health
    • Student Success
    • U-M 2024 Gender Salary Study
    • Past Initiatives
      • Early Tenure-Track Faculty Research Support initiative
      • Humanities Collaboratory
      • Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS)
      • Michigan Undergraduate Education in the Third Century
  • Memorandum from the Provost on Promotion Casebooks for Instructional Tenure Track, Research Professor Track, and Clinical Instructional Track Faculty
    updated July 22, 2024  (PDF)
  • Memorandum from the Provost on Faculty Evaluation: Recognition of Entrepreneurial, Creative, and Outreach Activities  updated July 22, 2024 (PDF)
  • Instructions for Faculty Promotions, 2024-25 promotion cycle (PDF)
  • Attachment A — Qualifications for Appointment and Promotion in the Several Faculties of University of Michigan
  • Attachment B — University of Michigan Bylaws: Section 5.23. Clinical Instructional Staff;
    and Section 5.24. Research Scientists and Research Professors
  • Attachment C — Instructions for Instructional Faculty Promotion Recommendations
  • Attachment D — Sample Promotion Recommendation
  • Attachment E — CRLT Occasional Papers: The Teaching Portfolio
  • Sample Solicitation Letters as Word documents
    • Attachment F-1 — Sample solicitation letter: Instructional Tenure Track Appointments
    • Attachment F-2 — Sample solicitation letter: Instructional Tenure Track with Joint Academic Appointments
    • Attachment F-3 — Sample solicitation letter: Clinical Instructional Track Appointments
    • Attachment F-4 — Sample solicitation letter: Research Professor Track Appointments
  • Attachment G — Sample Alphabetical Listing of External Reviewers Who Provided Letters
  • Attachment H — SPG 201.13 Rules Concerning Regents’ Bylaw 5.09, Tenure, Tenure Review, and Joint or Partial Tenure Appointments
  • Attachment I — SPG 5.09 Procedures in Cases of Dismissal, Demotion, or Terminal Appointment for Tenured and Tenure Track Faculty
  • Instructions for uploading promotion casebooks to Dropbox, 2023-24 promotion cycle (PDF)
  • Promotion Procedures for Research Scientists (leave Provost website)
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