2024-25 Appointment, Promotion and Tenure Materials

Dear Faculty Member and Colleague:

The Feinberg School of Medicine promotion and tenure process occurs on an annual cycle. Faculty who wish to be considered for academic promotion during the next cycle (2024-2025) will be evaluated by the Department of Pediatrics Appointment, Promotion and Tenure (APT) Committee using the standards described in the NUFSM Information Guide for Appointments, Promotion and Tenure. Upon approval by that Committee and the Department Chair, the candidate will undergo review by the Feinberg School of Medicine Appointment, Promotion and Tenure (APT) Committee, and subsequently by the Dean. Please review the promotion section and relevant attachments on the Promotion & Tenure section at the Feinberg website.

Clinician-Educators and Research/Investigator/Team Scientists who wish to be considered for promotion should review their status and eligibility for promotion with their Division Head/Program Director. You can also schedule a promotion readiness review session with an Office of Faculty Development advisor. Contact pediatrics@luriechildrens.org to be matched.

To be considered for promotion, please follow these instructions to Prepare Your Packet.

1. Curriculum Vitae - Prepare your CV according to NU FSM CV guidelines. Follow these instructions to generate your CV from the Feinberg Faculty Portal.

2. Optional CV Supplements that may be used by faculty on any career track to record and expand upon these activities:

3. Personal Statement - Complete a concise Personal Statement summarizing the highlights of your academic and professional career achievements since your last appointment or promotion, and how these synergize to achieve your goals.

Should not exceed 3 single-spaced pages.
Important! Focus on explaining accomplishments since your last promotion (or since your initial appointment, if you now hold your first faculty rank), rather than recounting your entire career.
This checklist for preparing your CV and personal statement offered by the Pediatric APT Committee will help you prepare an effective statement.
Personal Statement for Clinician-Educators, Team Scientists, and Investigators: use this template to prepare your statement if you are appointed to the clinician-educator, investigator, or team scientist track.
Personal Statement for Research Faculty: use this template to prepare your statement if you are appointed to the non-tenure-eligible research track.

4. Record of Teaching and Teaching Evaluation s - Teaching is a core mission of FSM and all faculty on the Clinician-Educator, Team Scientist, and Investigator career tracks are expected to demonstrate contributions in this area. Teaching evaluations may be added to the promotion/tenure packet following the Record of Teaching to demonstrate evidence of teaching effectiveness.

5. Critical References List - Faculty are expected to advance their fields with their work having an impact beyond Northwestern. Identify up to five references since your last promotion in rank (or appointment) that represent your most significant contributions, and explain the impact and consequences of each.

6. Referee List - Referees from a diverse set of geographically dispersed institutions demonstrate the breadth of your reputation. Referees must hold an academic rank equal to or higher than the rank you are requesting. Referees should NOT be contacted directly to solicit your recommendation letter.

7. Letter from Program Leader – this is required for Team Scientists and faculty on the Research Track.

The personal statement and referee list must be prepared manually, but all other elements of the promotion/tenure packet can be produced manually or generated from the Feinberg Faculty Portal (FFP), if you have documented your career activity on that site. Generate Your CV, Promotion/Tenure Packet, or Other Reports of Career Activity provides instructions on how to generate the CV and other career documents via the Feinberg Faculty Portal.

FSM will present an annual Faculty Promotion and Tenure information program in April 2024 (TBD). View the slides from the March 2023 session.

All materials must be submitted to the Department of Pediatrics Faculty Affairs Office at fao@luriechildrens.org by Friday, April 12, 2024, along with a copy to your Division Head.

Note: Applications for promotion along the Lurie Children's Clinical Promotion Pathway will be handled separately in a cycle that starts later this Spring.

New this year: FSM is converting the unranked Health System Clinician (HSC) appointment category to a promotable career track that offers the academic ranks of Clinical Assistant Professor, Clinical Associate Professor, and Clinical Professor. All faculty currently appointed as unranked HSCs will be transitioned to the rank of Clinical Assistant Professor. All HSCs will be eligible for promotion, and existing unranked HSCs who are transitioned to Clinical Assistant Professor rank may proceed through the promotion process to attain a higher rank. FSM is developing the promotion criteria and process for the HSC ranks. We hope to know more in March, and will be reaching out to every HSC faculty member at that time.

Should you have any questions about the process, please contact pediatrics@luriechildrens.org

Sincerely,

Estella Alonso, MD, Interim Chair, Dept of Pediatrics

Susanna McColley, MD, Co-Chair, APT Committee, Dept of Pediatrics

Paul Schumacker, PhD, Co-Chair, APT Committee, Dept of Pediatrics

promotion and tenure timeline for Pediatrics

You are receiving this email, because you are a faculty member in the Department of Pediatrics. If you have questions regarding any of the items in this email, please contact pediatrics@luriechildrens.org.