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Promotion and Tenure

Contact: Please direct any questions about Promotion and Tenure to ascfacultyaffairs@osu.edu or Toni Calbert.5

Please see Key Academic Deadline Calendar for more dates (office hours, special workshops, etc.). 

 


2024


May

May 15-16, 2024:

  • Board of Trustees meeting at which promotion and tenure cases are formally approved

May 17, 2024:

  • Suggested deadline for completion of faculty annual reviews

May 24, 2024:

  • Lists of proposed external reviewers for 2024-2025 P&T cases due to Shari Speer for approval

May 28, 2024:

  • College deadline for notifying OAA of non-renewals of probationary faculty appointments

May TBD:

  • Lima Campus: Associated faculty annual reviews conducted
     

June

June 10, 2024

  • Recommended deadline for P&T candidates to submit materials for external review to TIU

June 17, 2024:

  • ASC P&T dossier preparation workshop for candidates, chairs and directors of TIUs, departmental administrators, eligible faculty, PODs

June 28, 2024:

  • College target date for notifying candidates of results of fourth year reviews and C/T/P and Research reappointment reviews (10-day comments period begins)

July

July 8, 2024: 

  • Copies of annual review letters to assistant, associate, and full professors due to college via department folders in Teams

July/August TBD

  • ASC Interfolio Workshop for Case Managers (P&T support staff)

August

Aug. 1-31, 2024: 

Aug. 15, 2024:

  • OAA orientation for new faculty

Aug. 16, 2024:

  • ASC orientation for new faculty
  • OAA P&T Achievement Conference

Aug. 20, 2024:

  • Autumn semester begins

September

Sep. TBD:

  • ASC orientation for new chairs and directors

Sep. 1-30, 2024: 

Sep. 9, 2024

  • Recommended last day for notifying candidates of results of regional campus P&T review (10-day comments period begins) 

Sep. 16, 2024

  • Newark Campus: P&T review meetings for all fourth-year, mandatory and non-mandatory promotion and tenure and promotion cases

Sep. 20, 2024:

  • Regional campus promotion and tenure review materials due to chairs and directors
  • Recommended last date to request promotion and tenure review materials for faculty supported through Discovery Themes (DT) funding from DT focus area faculty leaders and from joint unit TIU heads for faculty with joint appointments

Sep. 27, 2024: 

  • Recommended last date to schedule P&T review meetings of the eligible faculty

October

Oct. 1-20, 2024: 

Oct. 4, 2024:

  • Recommended last date for notifying candidates of results of TIU P&T review (10-day comments period begins)

Oct. 10-11, 2024:

  • Autumn Break

Oct. 18, 2024: 

  • Deadline for submission of P&T dossiers to college

December

Dec. 4, 2024: 

  • Last day of regularly scheduled autumn semester classes

2025


January

January TBD:

  • Newark Campus: due date for submission of faculty annual review materials (typically mid-January)
  • ASC dossier preparation workshop for fourth year review and C/T/P and Research reappointment candidates, chairs and directors of TIUs, departmental administrators, eligible faculty, PODs

Jan. 6, 2025: 

  • Spring semester begins

Jan. 17, 2025: 

  • College target date for notifying candidates of results of P&T reviews (10-day comments period begins)

Jan. 31, 2025: 

  • Deadline for college to submit all P&T dossiers to OAA

February

Feb. 1-28, 2025: 

Feb. 1, 2025:  

  • Recommended departmental due date for submission of faculty annual review materials and fourth year review materials

Feb. 18, 2025

  • Recommended last day for notifying candidates of results of regional campus P&T review (10-day comments period begins) 

March

March 1-31, 2025: 

March 3, 2025: 

  • Suggested deadline to solicit annual review letters, fourth-year reviews and C/T/P and Research faculty reappointment review letters for faculty supported through Discovery Themes (DT) funding from DT focus area faculty leaders and from joint unit TIU heads for faculty with joint appointments
  • Regional campus fourth year review and C/T/P and Research reappointment review materials due to chairs and directors

March 10-14, 2025:  

  • Spring Break

March 17, 2025

  • Recommended last date to schedule review meetings of the eligible faculty for fourth year reviews of assistant professors and reappointment reviews for C/T/P and Research faculty

March 22, 2025

  • Recommended last date for notifying candidates of results of TIU fourth-year reviews and C/T/P and Research faculty reappointment reviews (10-day comments period begins)

March 31, 2025: 

  • Deadline to submit requests for exclusions from the probationary period to the college for candidates scheduled for mandatory tenure review in 2025-2026

March TBD:

  • Lima Campus: Tenure-track annual reviews conducted

April

April TBD

  • Notification to college office of P&T decisions by the provost

April 4, 2025: 

  • Fourth year review and C/T/P and Research reappointment dossiers due to the college

April 21, 2025: 

  • Last day of regularly scheduled spring semester classes

April 28, 2025: 

  • Suggested target date for completing annual review meetings
  • Suggested target date for identifying all candidates for non-mandatory P&T reviews

April 30, 2025

  • Target date for dean of college to notify candidates of P&T decisions

May

May 16, 2025:

  • Suggested deadline for completion of faculty annual reviews

May 21-22, 2025:

  • Board of Trustees meeting at which promotion and tenure cases are formally approved

May 23, 2025: 

  • Lists of proposed external reviewers for 2025-2024 P&T cases due to Shari Speer for approval

May 30, 2025:

  • College deadline for notifying OAA of non-renewals of probationary faculty appointments

May TBD:

  • Lima Campus: Associated faculty annual reviews conducted

June

June TBD:

  • ASC P&T dossier preparation workshop for candidates, chairs and directors of TIUs, departmental administrators, eligible faculty, PODs for the 2025-2026 P&T cycle

June 27, 2025

  • College target date for notifying candidates of results of fourth year reviews and C/T/P and Research reappointment reviews (10-day comments period begins) 

July

July 11, 2025: 

  • Copies of annual review letters to assistant, associate, and full professors due to college 

The Office of Academic Affairs (OAA) maintains a listing of Appointments, Promotions and Tenure as well as Pattern of Administration documents. Visit the OAA site and scroll to the section titled College of Arts and Sciences.

External Evaluators

Forms to be used in the External Evaluator sections of Interfolio:

Faculty with Temporary Immigration Status

To be included in dossiers for faculty seeking tenure with temporary immigration status:

MOU for Faculty with Temporary Immigration Status

All forms should be completed and signed by the faculty member and the TIU head and submitted to ascfacultyaffairs@osu.edu along with all required documentation.

Contact ascfacultyaffairs@osu.edu for info on the Counter Offer Expedited P&T Review Process.

 

Evaluator Materials

Workshops

ASC P&T Dossier and Interfolio Workshop

Monday, June 17, 11am-1pm

Workshop for Candidates, TIU Heads, P&T Chairs, PODs, and Staff Members involved in a promotion or promotion and tenure review in Autumn 2024. This session, led by Shari Speer, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, focuses on the new core dossier outline and the Interfolio and review submission process. Content is relevant for mandatory tenure-track sixth year reviews, and non-mandatory promotion reviews for tenured, clinical/teaching/practice, and research faculty. 

ASC P&T Workshop Recording AU2024

ASC Fourth-Year and Reappointment Review Workshop

Candidates/PODS/Staff

Wednesday, January 17, 2024; 2-4pm

Workshop for Candidates, TIU Heads, Regional Dean and Directors, P&T Chairs, PODs, and Staff Members involved in a Fourth-Year or Reappointment Review this Spring. This workshop, led by Shari Speer, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, will focus on the Interfolio submission process, including changes from the Autumn P&T cycle, and content of core dossiers and other review materials. It will have information relevant for mandatory tenure-track fourth year reviews and mandatory reappointment reviews for clinical/teaching/practice and research faculty. 

ASC Fourth Year Review Workshop SP2024 Recording

PODs/Staff

Tuesday, July 18, 2023; 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Shari Speer, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, will lead this workshop for TIU chairs/directors, administrative staff, P&T committee chairs, and procedure oversight designees (PODs). The workshop will focus on dossier forms and assembly of the complete dossier for submission to the college. It will have information relevant for tenure-track, clinical/teaching/practice, and research faculty promotion and promotion and tenure reviews. Please plan to send at least one representative from your department. Note that this is NOT appropriate for faculty candidates for promotion as it deals with steps that occur after the core dossier is submitted to the department. Contact ascfacultyaffairs@osu.edu with any questions.

ASC Dossier Prep Workshop Recording 2023

 

Results

Congratulations to the following faculty members who received promotions and/or tenure from the Board of Trustees on May 15, 2024!

Arts and Humanities

Promotion to Professor
Breyfogle, Nicholas, History 

Burry, Alexander, Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures 

Duenas, Alcira, History, Newark 

Hawkins, Tom, Classics 

Hoffmann, Benjamin, French and Italian 

Judd, Robin, History 

Lockett, Leslie, English 

Low, John, Comparative Studies, Newark 

Rush, George, Art 

Sims, Andrea, Linguistics 

Skinner, Ryan, School of Music 

Steinmetz, Brad, Theatre, Film, and Media Arts  

Teston, Christa, English 

Wallace, Shawn, School of Music 

Weiner, Isaac, Comparative Studies 

Whittington, Karl, History of Art 

Winant, Carmen, Art

Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure
Kantor, Jamison, English, Mansfield

Lewis, Matt, Design

Perez, Ashley, Comparative Studies

Rask, Katie, Classics, Marion

Toth, Lucille, French and Italian, Newark
 

Natural and Mathematical Sciences

Promotion to Professor
 Burd, Christin, Molecular Genetics

Griffith, W. Ashley, School of Earth Sciences

Johnson, Niles, Mathematics, Newark

Katz, Eric, Mathematics

Koenig, Kenneth, Mathematics

Landsman, Alexandra, Physics

Lindert, Steffen, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Lu, Yuanming, Physics

Moortgat, Joachim, School of Earth Sciences

Nakanishi, Kotaro, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Patrikis, Stefan, Mathematics

Penneys, David, Mathematics

Sawyer, Audrey, School of Earth Sciences

Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure
Asta, Dena, Statistics

Gautam, Sachin, Mathematics

Jarzyna, Marta, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology

Ju, Kou-San, Microbiology

Krishnan, Sanjeevi, Mathematics

Leonard-Pingel, Jill, School of Earth Sciences, Newark 

Park, Jennifer, Mathematics

Sivakoff, Frances, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, Marion

 Skinner, Brian, Physics

Wang, Ji, Astronomy
 

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Promotion to Professor
 Carroll, Patrick, Psychology, Lima 

Colen, Cynthia, Sociology

DeAndrea, David, School of Communication

Harnish, Stacy, Speech and Hearing Science

Lopez, Steven, Sociology

Madsen, Kenneth, Geography, Newark

Moyer-Guse, Emily, School of Communication

Patson, Nikole, Psychology, Marion

Price-Spratlen, Townsand, Sociology

Tompkins, Virginia, Psychology, Lima

Way, Baldwin, Psychology

Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure

Dutta, Madhumita, Geography

Lin, Erin, Political Science

Ritchie, Melinda, Political Science

Saunders-Hastings, Emma, Political Science

Promotion to Associate Professor-Clinical

Chapman, Bridget, Speech and Hearing Science