Unified Faculty Scholarship Model Resolution

Affirming the seven strategic goals positioned to serve our University鈥檚 Vision and Mission,
Bearing in mind the need of transformation set forth by these goals,
Cognizant of the importance of faculty role in achieving these goals,
Recognizing the increased scope of the faculty鈥檚 scholarly activities,
Aware of the rigidity of the current definitions of scholarly activities, and
Having studied the UniScope scholarship model that provides transparency, consistency, and universality across colleges,

Now therefore, the Faculty Senate:

  1. Endorses the UniScope Scholarship Model as a framework for scholarly activities;
  2. Affirms that this requires 鈥渁 culture change rather than a paper process change鈥� in order to achieve strategic goal #7;
  3. Proposes the deployment of UniScope Scholarship Model for tenure and promotion assessments, incentives, and rewards processes;
  4. Requests colleges to revisit and redesign their tenure and promotion policies
    1. Recommends the resolution to be implemented gradually on a rotation academic units/colleges come up to Tenure and Promotion policy review as noted here:
      1. 2013-2014, 2016-2017, 2019-2020, etc. College of Education, College of Engineering
      2. 2014-2015, 2017-2018, 2020-2021, etc. College of Fine Arts, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University Libraries
      3. 2015-2016, 2018-2019, 2021-2022, etc. Barton School of Business, College of Health Profession
  5. Accepts that each academic unit or field will have its own examples for different dimensions of scholarly activities in this framework.