Faculty Responsibilities

Teaching
	The teaching of students is central to the missions of Oregon State University. Most faculty have significant responsibilities in instruction:
	in presenting resident credit courses, extension and international programs, non-credit seminars and workshops, and continuing-education and distance-learning programs; in directing undergraduate and graduate projects, internships, and theses, and in serving on master and doctoral committees; in mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral associates.
	When teaching is part of the faculty assignment, effectiveness in teaching is an essential criterion for appointment or advancement. Faculty with responsibilities in instruction can be promoted and tenured only when there is clear documentation of effective performance in the teaching role.
	Faculty must demonstrate command of their subject matter, continuous growth in the subject field, and ability to organize material and convey it effectively to students. Other activities that provide evidence of a faculty member's particular commitment to effective teaching include:
	contributions in curricular development, including collaborative courses and programs; innovation in teaching strategies, including the incorporation of new technologies and approaches to learning; documented study of curricular and pedagogical issues, and incorporation of this information into the classroom.
Advising
	You are eligible any time your record of accomplishment (your dossier) merits a positive decision in the view of your department chair/head, promotion and tenure committee, or dean. Typically, faculty hold the rank of Assistant Professor for six years. All faculty must also be committed to the well-being of students, both inside and outside the classroom. Effective advising helps create an environment which fosters student learning and student retention. The formal and informal advising and mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students is an indispensable component of the broader educational experience at the University. Faculty advising may take the form of assisting students in the selection of courses or careers, serving as faculty adviser with student groups, assisting learners in educational programs both on and off campus, and mentoring students. For promotion and tenure, performance in such activities must be documented and evaluated. Documentation should include the number of students served and the advising or mentoring services provided. Evaluation will consider the innovation and creativity of the services, and their effectiveness; it may be based on systematic surveys of and assessments by students and former students who received these services.
Scholarship and Creative Activity
	All Oregon State University faculty in the professorial ranks have a responsibility to engage in scholarship and creative activity. Scholarship and creative activity are understood to be intellectual work whose significance is validated by peers and which is communicated. More specifically, such work in its diverse forms is based on a high level of professional expertise; must give evidence of originality; must be documented and validated as through peer review or critique; and must be communicated in appropriate ways so as to have impact on or significance for publics beyond the University, or for the discipline itself. Intellectual work in teaching is scholarship if it is shared with peers in journals, in formal presentations at professional meetings, or in comparable peer-evaluated forums. Scholarship and creative activity may take many forms, including but not limited to:
	research contributing to a body of knowledge; development of new technologies, materials, or methods; integration of knowledge or technology leading to new interpretations or applications.
	While the kinds of scholarship for faculty across the range of positions at the University will vary, the requirement that the significance of the scholarship be validated and be communicated to publics beyond the University will sustain a uniformly high standard. In some fields, refereed journals and monographs are the traditional media for communication and peer validation; in others, exhibitions and performances. In still other fields, emerging technologies are creating, and will continue to create, entirely new media and methods. In consideration for promotion and tenure, scholarship and creative activity are not merely to be enumerated but are to be carefully, objectively, and rigorously evaluated by professional peers, including ones external to the University. When work that is the product of joint effort is presented as evidence of scholarship, clarification of the candidate's role in the joint effort should be provided in the dossier. In certain positions, seeking competitive grants and contracts is an essential responsibility, and success in this endeavor—particularly when the grants are highly competitive and peer-reviewed—is a component of achievement in scholarship.
Service
	Faculty service is essential to the University's success in serving its central missions, and is a responsibility of all faculty. Faculty members perform a broad array of services that are vital to supporting and sustaining the quality and effectiveness of the University and its programs. Faculty members are expected to provide service to the University, its students, clients, programs, and professional disciplines, as collegial and constructive members of the University and the broader community. Examples include service in faculty governance; in academic and student-support units; in international development; in community and state programs; in mentoring students and student groups; and on department, college, and university committees. In addition, service to professional organizations contributes to the national and international intellectual communities of which OSU is a part.
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