The document provides guidance for new faculty on building a strong dossier for tenure and promotion. It emphasizes that the dossier sets the context for a faculty member's case by providing evidence to support how they have met the standards and criteria in their teaching, scholarship, and service. For teaching, the portfolio should go beyond course evaluations to include a statement of teaching philosophy and goals as well as documents supporting teaching contributions. For scholarship, the dossier should include a statement of long-term research goals linked to published works and their impact. For service, it should outline departmental, university and community goals and long-term impact. Overall, the document stresses that the probationary years should focus on continuously building the dossier through annual feedback and workshops.

1. New Faculty Lunch What Matters Most for Tenure and Promotion April 22, 2010 Dr. Brenda Allen, Provost Winston Salem State University Building a Dossier Towards Tenure and Promotion

2. The Importance of the Dossier for Making a Case Sets the context for your case Provides evidence to support the case Written in the affirmative Speaks to the standards and criteria Dossier ≠ CV

3. Teaching Portfolio Statement of your unique contributions to the curriculum Statement of your approach to teaching: goals and objectives Documents to support the claims Teaching Portfolio ≠ Simple collection of teaching tool and evaluation received

4. Scholarship Statement of long-term research goals Link publications, performances, presentations etc. with statement of goals Compilation of scholarly products Assessment of impact on the field

5. Service What are your service goals? Departmental. University, Community Why is this important What are your long-term goals for impact

6. Final Thoughts Remember you make the first case Dossier is more than you CV Your probationary years should focus on building a dossier Seek feedback annually Participate in workshops offered by CETL