Promotion

Can non-tenure-track faculty be promoted? In most tracks, yes. In fact, while UGA's NTT contracts are for one year at a time, many NTT faculty spend their entire careers at UGA! In our faculty surveys, 7/10 non-tenure-track faculty plan to still be employed at UGA in five years; those who don't report the most likely reason as "retirement."

The majority of non-tenure-track faculty positions (e.g., academic professionals, clinical faculty, lecturers, librarians, public service faculty, research scientists) at UGA have well-defined "career ladders" and specific guidelines for appointment as well as for promotion. With entry-level, mid-rank and senior level "rungs," these positions are analogous to, but with substantive differences from, tenured/tenure-track positions. Some non-tenure-track roles (e.g., instructors, administrative A, university physicians) do not have specific  promotion guidelines.

Raises provided to non-tenure-track faculty upon promotion vary in amount by role. 

A quick snapshot can be found on our at-a-glance document here, however the Office of Faculty Affairs website hosts the current official guidelines and details.  

Interested in taking part in a dossier-writing group to work on your promotion materials? Contact us to ask about what's available!