BIPOC Faculty Applying for Tenure and Promotion: Do’s and Don’t and Getting the File Ready

INTRODUCTION

Are you stressed about your tenure & promotion file? Are you wondering how to identify external reviewers? Are you concerned about framing your self-appraisal and portfolio for an department, committee and institution that is predominantly white?

Going up for tenure and promotion for BIPOC faculty requires some careful planning and strategies to be successful in the process. Preparing for this high stake process and putting the file together should ideally start at least a year before a BIPOC candidate is either slated to go up for their tenure and promotion to associate ranking, or applying for full professorship. 

In this co-led workshop by two experienced BIPOC facuty (who are both full professors and have been members of PT committees in their institutions and external reviewers for others) will provide some hands-on tips, best practices and resources to address the preparation for your files. Some of the topics covered will include but not limited to writing an engaging self-appraisal, to demonstrating strong and impactful teaching and research statements, along with addressing hostile teaching evaluations, and showcasing “service” to your institution and your profession. External reviews are also a part of the PT process in many institutions and the workshop will prepare participants to plan and engage in this process. 

Space is limited. Please register early. 

Bios:

Dr. Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt is the Edith Green Distinguished Professor in the department of English at Linfield University in Oregon. She also co-coordinates the Gender Studies program and is the author of the monograph, The Postcolonial Citizen: The Intellectual Migrant and is  the lead editor with Dr. Kakali Bhattacharya of Civility, Free Speech and Academic Freedom in Higher Education: Faculty on the Margins. As a public intellectual Dutt-Ballerstadt writes frequently critiquing the university in various national publications along with writing more scholarly articles on the intersections of critical race theory, decolonization and transnational feminism. She also mentors both students and BIPOC/BIWOC faculty to navigate various barrier in higher ed. Dutt-Ballerstadt also serves as the editor for Inside Higher Ed’s column “Conditionally Accepted,” a column for marginalized faculty in higher education.

Dr. Nalini Iyer is Professor of English at Seattle University and the Theiline Pigott-McCone Endowed Chair for the Humanities. She teaches postcolonial studies including South Asian and African writing, and courses on postcolonial and transnational feminisms. Her publications include the following: Other Tongues: Rethinking the Language Debates in India (2009); Roots and Reflections: South Asians in the Pacific Northwest (2013); and Revisiting India’s Partition: New Essays in Memory, Culture, and Politics (2016). She is the Chief Editor of South Asian Review.