Assistant Professor Rank Description

  • Pursue professional opportunities and relationships to improve student, personal, and departmental/programmatic success.
  • Contribute to department/program-level initiatives.
  • Contribute to planning and/or assessment at course and department/program level.

Observed actions

  • Department and/or program level committees/workgroups/initiatives/projects
    • Workgroup for placement into classes
    • Placement assessment
    • Participate in curriculum development
    • Content lead
    • Creation/revision of lab manuals or department documents
    • Departmental curriculum coordinator
    • Evaluation and/or testing of new technology, products, procedures
    • Program and academic advisor
    • TAC member and industry liaison
    • Community/industry brown bag luncheon presenter
    • Member of grant committee (department scope)
    • INBRE committee member
    • Hiring committee assistant dean, dean
    • Program review participation
    • Organize student display for subject area
    • Lab coordinator
    • CWI blogs
    • Club advisor
    • Dual credit liaison
    • Team teaching within the department/program
    • OER developments

The impact of this work can be demonstrated through

  • Effective use of professional opportunities and relationships to improve student, personal, and departmental/programmatic success
  • Value added to department and program initiatives

The impact can be measured in

  • Performance evaluations
  • Cover Letter