PAD Resources for Tenured and Probationary Term (Tenure-Track) Faculty

Below, you will find resources that can help you develop your Personnel Action Dossier (PAD). Directions for the PAD are found in Part X of the Faculty Manual. Faculty members should consult their unit heads and their personnel committee chairs for guidance. Unit Codes (available on the Faculty Senate Website) should also be consulted carefully.

• Blank Personnel Action Summary Form (Word Document)
• Editable PAD Checklist (PDF Document)
• Promotion and Tenure Timeline (JPG Image)
• PAD Frequently Asked Questions (Word Document)
• Promotion and Tenure Top 7 Tips (JPG Image) 

Tab D – Supporting Evidence

Tab D of your Personnel Action Dossier (PAD) is where you provide evidence for the following areas: teaching, research and/or creative activity, clinical work, and service.

Except for mandatory documentation in the Teaching Section, there are no hard and fast requirements for the evidence you must provide for each section. Below, you’ll find some suggestions, examples, and resources you may find helpful as you gather materials for use in Tab D.

Examples of Supporting Materials 

External Resources to Consider

• General Resources
  • 10 things no one told me about applying for tenure (The Chronicle of Higher Education) 
  • Vast amount of information on creating a dossier, includes examples (University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine) 
  • Tools for Dossier Success: A Guide For Promotion and Tenure (Burnham, Hooper & Wright, 2010) – Book available online through ECU Libraries
• Tab D Resources
  • General list of supporting materials you might include (University of Central Florida, College of Medicine) 
• Writing Statements
  • Prompts and information about writing research, teaching & service statements (University at Albany) 
  • Tips for writing your teaching statement (The Chronicle of Higher Education) 
  • Components of a teaching statement, as well as tools and prompts to help get you started (Ohio State University) 
  • General information about teaching statements with prompts, also includes links to more resources (Vanderbilt University) 
  • Suggested content of a research statement along with examples (Duke University) 
• Teaching Section
  • List of supporting materials you might include in your teaching section (Iowa State University) 
  • Rich resource for all aspects of the teaching section of your dossier (University of Toronto) 
  • How to prepare a teaching portfolio, has tips & steps (Rodriguez-Farrar, University of Arizona) 
• Research Section
  • Suggested contents for the research section of your dossier (University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine)