Part 4: Service
SENMC faculty members are allowed a multi-faceted view of service, thus allowing the faculty member to make a case regarding their service and its impact on their service area. Faculty members provide institutional service – to the departments and divisions (if applicable), to their college, and service to the community. Examples of institutional service may include serving on committees, task forces, advisory boards, advising student groups, writing and reporting on grants, editing a campus newsletter, participating in school-sponsored activities, and actively participating in many other activities. Examples of community service include, but are not limited to, service to civic and community organizations.
Because the mission of SENMC is better served by having its faculty involved in all areas of the community, a broad definition of “community service” will be used. While SENMC acknowledges the importance of state, national, and even global contributions of service, the focus of SENMC is much more directed towards recognizing and responding to the needs of its service area. Therefore, a faculty member’s service to the community can be extremely beneficial to both the college and the community. Community service must be within the faculty member’s area of expertise, although all on-campus activities can be deemed appropriate, even if outside one’s area of expertise.
Regional, national, or international service is also valued and can be negotiated as part of a faculty member’s allocation of effort.
Evaluation of Service
The type and amount of service that a faculty member performs should be determined in consultation with the appropriate administrator(s) in the faculty member’s allocation of effort. All relevant activities in which a faculty member participates should receive appropriate consideration for promotion and tenure decisions. Service activities will be evaluated on the significance, quality, and duration of the activity. In addition, faculty will be evaluated upon their level of responsibility in accomplishing the task.
Service involves active participation as documented in the portfolio. Faculty will address their accomplishments in institutional and/or community service. Faculty members are required to provide documented evidence that support the case they are making for promotion or tenure.
Leadership
Although Leadership is not a criteria category per se of the SENMC Allocation of Effort document, demonstrations and achievements in Leadership may be recorded as appropriate in each of the other four criteria categories (Teaching, Scholarship, Extension/Outreach, and Service).
In demonstrating leadership, candidates must show that they are having an impact as evidenced by the candidate’s scholarship and creative activity, and by contributions to the advancement of the college which may include administrative roles in which considerable and well-documented contributions to the college have been made.
Evaluation of Leadership
Leadership is characterized by:
- contribution to the mission of the college and to the faculty member’s profession;
- participation in the distribution of responsibility among the members of a group;
- empowering and mentoring group members; and
- aiding the group’s decision-making process. Leadership may be negotiated as part of a faculty member’s allocation of effort.
Faculty are encouraged to address their accomplishments in leadership. Faculty members are required to provide documented evidence that supports their application. Supporting documentation referred to in the narrative will be placed in the documentation file (see Glossary). In this executive summary, faculty should address how their leadership impacts the mission of the college or their academic unit.