About this Initiative
We have a clear opportunity to establish and work towards meeting more efficient timeframes for issuing decisions or correspondence, strengthen communication and education about the review process, and collaborate with campus partners — including chairs, associate deans, and deans — on ways to enhance the whole case review process at all levels while maintaining the safeguards that preserve our standards of equity and excellence. Together as a campus we can ensure that faculty receive fair, constructive and timely merit and promotion reviews.
Initiative Team
Sponsor:
- Victoria Plaut, vice provost for the Faculty
Initiative Managers:
- Heather Archer, assistant vice provost for Academic Personnel,
- Dana Jantz, chief of staff, Office of the Vice Provost for the Faculty
Milestones
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Completed Items
Goals & Efforts
- Initial improved target case review timeframes developed and implemented
- Announce new campus case submission deadlines to improve caseflow
- Publish first quarterly AP Bears Cases in Progress snapshot
- First annual VPF message to senate faculty sent
- Communications plan implementation: message new on-time tag procedure for the 2027 case review cycle
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2026
Goals & Efforts
- Communications plan finalized
- VPF/APO completes initial review of target case review timeframes progress & workflow analysis
- Complete second set of annual consultations with decanal units to promote process improvement
3
2027
Goals & Efforts
- VPF/APO completes first annual evaluation and reassessment of target case review timeframes for the 2027 cycle
- Communications plan implementation: complete APO website redesign
- Completion of campus-wide retreat in support of AP professionals
- Completion of first annual series of APO best practice working sessions
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2028
Goals & Efforts
- Explore partnering with system-wide AP to finalize online AP training modules
- VPF/APO complete analysis of AP work to identify and support AP needs across the campus