Tenure & Promotion
Faculty applying for tenure and/or promotion follow guidelines outlined in Section III. Faculty Rank and Promotion and Section IV: Faculty Continuance and Tenure as described in the Faculty Handbook. Faculty undergoing the processes create packets following departmental/school and college guidelines and submit them through WKU’s Workflow Portal by October 1.
Workflow Submission Resources:
- Faculty Workflow Directions for Tenure and/or Promotion
- Chair/Director Workflow Directions for Tenure and/or Promotion
- Directions for OneDrive and Folder Access
Top Two Submission Errors:
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Faculty attempt to upload packets that are larger than 40 MB. In Adobe Pro and the online version of Adobe, the Optimize function allows you to shrink files. There are also a number of free compression services on the web; ITS has recommended https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/online/compress-pdf.html as a relatively easy and reliable service.
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Faculty neglect to save Tenure and/or Promotion Packets on their computers with the appropriate naming conventions before beginning the workflow
- Tenure & Promotion: Lastname-Firstname-TenurePromotion-2025.pdf
- Tenure only: Lastname-Firstname-Tenure-2025.pdf
- Promotion to Associate Only: Lastname-Firstname-PromotionAssoc-2025.pdf
- Promotion to full: Lastname-Firstname-PromotionFull-2025.pdf
- Promotion to Instructor 2: Lastname-Firstname-PromotionInst2-2025.pdf
- Promotion to Senior Instructor 2: Lastname-Firstname-PromotionInstSr-2025.pdf
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