(A) Definition of
terms
(1) "High-quality teaching and academic
advising" is defined as meaning that the person has demonstrated the following:
(a) Proficiency in classroom instruction
(i) Through the discharge of such
responsibilities as: meeting scheduled classes on time; being prepared for each
class; being able to present material clearly; integrating new developments in
the field and new methods of instruction; and
(ii) Through continuing evidence of favorable
teaching evaluation.
(b)
Maintenance of regularly scheduled office hours and an interest in students
indicated by availability for conferences, or one-to-one contact,
etc.
(c) Commitment to good
teaching and maintenance of a continuing effort to improve teaching ability, including multiple measures of teaching effectiveness that
are administered on a consistent basis.
(d) Participation in scholarly discussion on
teaching problems.
(e) Initiative
and skill in the development and administration of teaching programs.
(f) Satisfactory fulfillment of academic
advising responsibilities.
(2) "Research, scholarly and/or creative
achievement of high quality and its prospective continuation" is defined as
meaning that a person has developed and formally presented through publication,
performance, or other appropriate means a sustainable body of research,
scholarship and/or creative work that is judged to be substantive and of high
quality by others in the discipline. The university values an inclusive view of
scholarship in the recognition that knowledge is acquired and advanced through
discovery, integration, and application. Given this perspective, promotion and
tenure reviews, as detailed in the criteria of individual departments and
divisions, will recognize original research and creative/artistic contributions
in peer-reviewed outlets as well as high quality integrative and applied forms
of scholarship that involve collaborations with business and community
partners, including translational research, commercialization of discoveries,
technology transfer activities, and patents.
(3) "Productive professional service" is
defined as the effective engagement in structured activities which contribute
to the operation and advancement of a person's department, division, campus,
the university, scholarly and professional associations, and/or the educational
enterprise. Professional service includes the use of one's professional
expertise in community, state, national or international service.
(4) "Professional collegiality" is not
personal congeniality, but rather a quality manifested, for example, by
behaviors such as willingness to serve on committees and perform work necessary
to departmental operation, willingness to provide guidance and help to
colleagues in their professional duties, adherence to professional ethics,
respect for the ideas of others, and the conduct of one's professional life
without prejudice toward others.
While departments, divisions, or campuses may define these
terms or elaborate these definitions in their statements of procedures and
policies, all elaborations must be consistent in spirit and content with the
above and must be published. The department, the department chair, the program
director (when appropriate), the divisional dean, the university promotion and
tenure committee, the provost, and the president will consider these
elaborative definitions when making tenure and promotion decisions.
(B) Assistant professor
(tenure-eligible rank)
An assistant professor must hold an earned doctorate or other
terminal degree, or the equivalent of such a degree, from an accredited college
or university. (It is recognized that the equivalent of a doctor's degree may
involve specialized training, study or experience that does not culminate in a
doctorate.)
For appointment to this rank, a candidate must
demonstrate:
(1) Ability to achieve
effectiveness as a teacher and academic adviser;
(2) Ability to do research, scholarly and/or
creative achievement;
(3) Ability
to perform productive professional service; and
(4) Ability to meet standards of professional
collegiality.
(C)
Associate professor (tenure-eligible rank)
An associate professor must hold an earned doctorate or other
terminal degree, or the equivalent of such a degree, from an accredited college
or university. (It is recognized that the equivalent of a doctor's degree may
involve specialized training, study, or experience that does not culminate in a
doctorate.)
For appointment or promotion to this rank, a candidate must
demonstrate:
(1) High-quality teaching
and academic advising;
(2)
Research, scholarly and/or creative achievement of high quality and its
prospective continuation;
(3)
Productive professional service; and
(4) Professional collegiality within the
department, division, campuses, and university community.
(D) Professor (tenure-eligible rank)
Appointment or promotion to the rank of professor at Miami
university will ordinarily be recommended to the board of trustees only for
those members of the instructional staff who will enhance the excellence of
this group and the academic standard of the university.
A professor must hold an earned doctorate or other terminal
degree, or the equivalent of such a degree, from an accredited college or
university. (It is recognized that the equivalent of a doctor's degree may
involve specialized training, study, or experience that does not culminate in a
doctorate.)
For appointment or
promotion to this rank, a candidate must demonstrate excellence in the first
and second criteria listed below and must demonstrate strength in the
third:
(1) A cumulative record of
high-quality teaching and academic advising;
(2) A cumulative record of research,
scholarly and/or creative achievement, including recent
work produced while at Miami university or since promotion at Miami
university which has resulted in an established reputation within the
discipline;
(3) Performance of
productive professional service.
Regional campus faculty may elect to demonstrate excellence in
the first and third criteria and demonstrate strength in the second.
Notes
Ohio Admin. Code
3339-7-04
Effective:
10/17/2019
Promulgated Under:
111.15
Statutory
Authority: 3339.1
Rule Amplifies: 3339-7-04
Prior
Effective Dates: 10/24/1986, 09/30/2000, 10/31/2002, 11/07/2003, 03/21/2005,
10/14/2005, 10/31/2006, 11/14/2009, 09/17/2010, 11/05/2015,
12/06/2018
