(A) The Ohio state university will be
recognized worldwide for the quality and impact of its research, teaching, and
service. For purposes of faculty performance reviews under university rules:
(1) Research is broadly defined to include
discovery, scholarly and creative work, applied research, commercialization,
and the scholarship of pedagogy.
(2) Teaching is broadly defined to include
didactic classroom, non-classroom and distance instruction, extension and
continuing education, advising, and supervising or mentoring students or
postdoctoral scholars.
(3) Service
is broadly defined to include providing administrative service to the
university, professional service to the faculty member's discipline, and
disciplinary expertise to public or private entities beyond the university.
Each tenure initiating unit is responsible for establishing
criteria for appointment, reappointment, and promotion and tenure that are
consistent with this mission and for ensuring that every faculty appointment,
reappointment, and promotion and tenure recommendation is consistent with this
mission.
Appointment decisions for tenure-track faculty positions, as
defined in rule
3335-5-19 of the Administrative
Code, must be based on criteria that reflect strong potential to attain tenure
and advance through the faculty ranks. A minimum requirement for appointment at
or promotion to the rank of assistant professor or a higher rank is an earned
doctorate or other terminal degree in the relevant field of study or possession
of equivalent experience. Appointments at the rank of instructor should
normally only be made when the offered appointment is that of assistant
professor but the appointee has not completed the required terminal degree at
the onset of the appointment. Appointments of
tenure-track faculty should occur only after a national search.
(B) No faculty member
attains tenure automatically. Tenure may be acquired either in the original
appointment to the tenure-track faculty rank of associate professor or
professor or upon promotion from within the university to the rank of associate
professor, or following a successful probationary period at the rank of
associate professor or professor (as specified in rule
3335-6-03 of the Administrative
Code). Tenure will not be awarded below the rank of associate
professor.
(C) The awarding of
tenure and promotion to the rank of associate professor must be based on
convincing evidence that the faculty member has achieved excellence as a
teacher, as a scholar, and as one who provides effective service; and can be
expected to continue a program of high quality teaching, scholarship, and
service relevant to the mission of the academic unit(s) to which the faculty
member is assigned and to the university. Promotion to the rank of professor
must be based on convincing evidence that the faculty member has a sustained
record of excellence in teaching; has produced a significant body of
scholarship that is recognized nationally or internationally; and has
demonstrated leadership in service.
(D) In evaluating the candidate's
qualifications in teaching, scholarship, and service, reasonable flexibility
shall be exercised, balancing, where the case requires, heavier commitments and
responsibilities in one area against lighter commitments and responsibilities
in another. In addition, as the university enters new fields of endeavor,
including interdisciplinary endeavors, and places new emphases on its
continuing activities, instances will arise in which the proper work of faculty
members may depart from established academic patterns. In such cases care must
be taken to apply the criteria with sufficient flexibility. In all instances
superior intellectual attainment, in accordance with the criteria set forth in
university rules, is an essential qualification for promotion to tenured
positions. Clearly, insistence upon this standard for continuing members of the
faculty is necessary for maintenance and enhancement of the quality of the
university as an institution dedicated to the discovery and transmission of
knowledge.
(E) Each tenure
initiating unit shall have an appointments, promotion, and tenure document. The
document shall describe, in qualitative terms, the unit's criteria for
appointments, promotion, and tenure and evidence to be provided to support a
case within the context of the unit's mission and the standards set forth in
this rule as well as the mission and standards of the college. The document
should indicate with some specificity how the quality and effectiveness of
teaching, the quality and significance of scholarship, and the quality and
effectiveness of service are to be documented and assessed. The document of a
tenure initiating unit with regional campus faculty must establish criteria for
appointments, promotion, and tenure for these faculty within the context of the
regional campuses' mission as well as that of the tenure initiating unit. The
document shall also describe the unit's procedures for conducting annual
performance reviews of probationary faculty and reviews for promotion and
tenure.
The document must be drawn up or amended through broad faculty
consultation with all voting members of the tenure initiating unit according to
the principles articulated in paragraph (C)(3) of rule
3335-3-35 of the Administrative
Code and must be approved by the dean of the college and the executive vice
president and provost.
(F)
Each college shall have an appointments, promotion, and tenure document. The
document shall describe, in qualitative terms, the college's criteria for
appointments, promotion, and tenure within the context of the college's mission
and the standards set forth in this rule. The document shall also describe the
college's procedures for conducting college level reviews for promotion and
tenure.
The document must be drawn up through broad faculty
consultation and must be approved by the executive vice president and
provost.
Notes
Ohio Admin. Code
3335-6-02
Effective:
10/16/2023
Promulgated Under:
111.15
Statutory
Authority: 3335
Rule Amplifies:
3335.08
Prior
Effective Dates: 08/08/1978, 11/05/1984, 07/30/1990, 08/05/1996, 03/26/1998,
05/23/1999, 08/19/2002, 07/01/2004, 08/01/2005, 06/02/2012, 07/01/2014,
11/09/2020
