Checklist for Completion of Steps

• You’ve been assigned an Official Faculty Mentor.

• Make sure a Google folder was created for you by the Office of Academic Affairs. 

• Create your own copy of the Google folder in your own Google account. This is the working draft of the portfolio you will submit for review in the fall of your third year. Begin to insert documentation and evidence into four subfolders entitled: general information, teaching, service, scholarship.

• You should have held at least four formal mentoring meetings with your Official Faculty Mentor during your first year.

• You should know the members (including chair) of your Third Year Review Committee. Consult your division chair or school dean if you don’t. 

• Review the working draft of your portfolio. See if you can create subfolders within each of the three main categories–teaching, service, and scholarship–based on the criteria for tenure applications in the Faculty Handbook. 

• You should:

  • Have at least one course that you can use as an example of your teaching

  • Have a plan to demonstrate that you can meet the Level I and II requirements in the scholarship criteria

  • Know the standing faculty committee on which you will be serving during your second year.

• You should have held at least four formal mentoring meetings with your Official Faculty Mentor during your second year.

• Review the working draft of your portfolio. See if you can create subfolders within each of the three main categories–teaching, service, and scholarship–based on the criteria for tenure applications in the Faculty Handbook. 

• You should:

  • Have at least three courses that you can use as examples of your teaching

  • Have evidence of progress in meeting the Level II requirements in the scholarship criteria

  • Have evidence of a plan to meet the Level I requirements in the scholarship criteria

  • Be able to explain your service on a standing faculty committee from your first year

• You should have identified at least two members of the Elms College community, one of whom should be a full-time faculty member, who will write letters of support that discuss your service, teaching, and scholarship.

Transfer the relevant information and documentation from your working portfolio to the official Google folder created for you by the Office of Academic Affairs

• Examples of evidence for each section

• How much criteria information should be included here?