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Promotion Workshops

The information below is for the 2026-2027 Promotion Cycle 

In harmony with our mission to cultivate and connect institutional structures for faculty advancement, Faculty Affairs has developed this video workshop series to support faculty, administrators, and staff involved in faculty pathways to promotion and tenure. 

Preparing Your Packet for Promotion on the Tenure Track

Preparing Your Packet for Promotion on the Continuing Status Track

Preparing Your Packet for Promotion on the Career Track

Crafting your Candidate Statement for Promotion (Section 5)

This video workshop will help faculty begin to develop their candidate statement. Faculty will learn how to craft a compelling narrative, highlight impact, identify key innovations, and use purposeful language for both internal and external reviewers. 

This workshop details:

  • How to write a compelling candidate statement,
  • Highlight impact,
  • Identify key innovations, and
  • Use purposeful language for external and/or internal reviewers.

Candidate Statements are vital to outline the impact of candidates’ service, teaching, and research.  They play an especially important role in documenting the sorts of community-based scholarship, partnerships, and outreach that are highlighted in the University's Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship. Candidate Statements also provide an opportunity for associate professors to discuss their institutional leadership and impact.

Putting together the Teaching Portfolio and Resources (Section 6)

This video presentation provides guidance on developing a comprehensive and effective teaching portfolio as part of the promotion dossier. It outlines the key components of Section 6 and offers practical strategies for organizing and presenting materials that clearly demonstrate teaching effectiveness and impact. 

Participants will learn how to curate and contextualize evidence of teaching. The workshop also highlights best practices for demonstrating reflection and contributions to student success.  

Putting together the Portfolio for Leadership, Extension, Service or Innovation (Section 7)

​​​​The University’s Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship recognizes the integral relations among research, teaching, service, and outreach. To enable candidates to document their broader contributions, this video workshop will note our support for preparing a service and outreach portfolio, which candidates can use to document their broader leadership.

Department Heads and Directors Promotion Training and Best Practices

This video workshop prepares administrators, heads and directors - both new and experienced - for their role in the promotion review process. Learn the pivotal steps of heads and directors in their department or unit’s promotion reviews, as well as the importance of maintaining a balanced, thorough, and procedurally sound review of candidates. 

Promotion Peer Review Committee Training 

This video workshop is designed to support faculty serving on Promotion Peer Review Committees in conducting thorough, fair, and well-documented evaluations of candidates. It provides an overview of the committee’s role within the promotion review process, including expectations for assessing dossiers, participating in deliberations, and documenting outcomes. 

The workshop also includes a walkthrough of the dossier template, helping committee members navigate each section and understand how to review materials effectively. Participants will learn best practices for maintaining confidentiality, ensuring consistency, and applying established criteria in a balanced and evidence-based manner. The session also emphasizes the importance of clear communication and procedural integrity to support a rigorous and equitable review process. 

RPT Training for Department, Unit or College Coordinators or Managers​​​​​

  • Watch this video workshop in EDGE Learning
  • Learn how to manage your area’s promotion reviews online with Review, Promotion, and Tenure (RPT). 
    • This workshop will train staff members to do the following in RPT:
      • uploading documents for a case,
      • soliciting for review letters,
      • managing multiple types of reviews and committees; and
      • sending forward or backward cases through the review steps.

RPT System Training for Associate Deans, Department Heads, and Peer Reviewers

Training for use of Dossier Management Checklist and Case Review for Department Coordinators and Faculty Affairs Leads - Continuing and Tenure Track 

  • Watch this video workshop in EDGE Learning
  • You will be able to download the 2026-27 Checklist and Steps for RPT Continuing and Tenure Case Reviews Before Sending Forward from EDGE Learning
  • This 30-minute training and attached checklist will simplify how to implement best practices for managing a Continuing to Tenure Track promotion case review for department coordinators and FA Leads.

Training for use of Dossier Management Checklist for Department Coordinators and Faculty Affairs Leads - Career Track 

  • Watch this video workshop in EDGE Learning
  • You will be able to download the 2026-27 Checklist and Steps for RPT CAREER-Track Case Reviews Before Sending Forward from EDGE Learning
  • This 25-minute training and attached checklist will simplify how to implement best practices for managing a Career-track promotion case review for department coordinators and FA Leads.

In-person workshops

These workshops will be hosted by your college, where Dr. Andrea Romero will be in attendance. For further inquiry regarding the workshop dates, please contact your college representative. 

If you have questions about these workshops and presentations, please contact us at facultyaffairs@arizona.edu