[CED/CD/EAT] Fw: COVID-19 Campus Mitigation Plan / Promotion Guidelines

Sat Mar 28 17:51:57 MST 2020

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Subject: COVID-19 Campus Mitigation Plan / Promotion Guidelines

From: Andrea Romero, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs <facultyaffiars at comms.arizona.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 4:55 PM

Subject: COVID-19 Campus Mitigation Plan / Promotion Guidelines

Adjustments to our promotion process to help offset COVID-19 challenges

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Dear Faculty Colleagues,

The global pandemic crisis of COVID-19 is creating many challenges for faculty. While you have risen to the challenge of recreating classes in an on-line form, our team in Academic Affairs recognize that your time and energy has been diverted away from planned activities, and that, for many of us, balancing life and work has become significantly more complicated.

Thus, I am writing to share the following adjustments to our promotion process to help offset these challenges.

1. Deadlines are extended for promotion packet submissions to the Office of the Provost.

a. Career-track dossier deadline is extended to January 15, 2021.

b. Tenure-Track and Continuing Track dossiers deadline is extended to February 15,2021.

2. Promotion Clock Delays for tenure-eligible or continuing-eligible candidates are encouraged and are available through a simple online opt-in process<http://click.comms.arizona.edu/?qs=c7ce2d1ab4ef1633895d6ac0213c9c1b4913151049901ef8f52a633cb8b229ffe05e3e6af04cfe4ad4f3a417653e8ddc2e0999cb5ad0cebd>.

Promotion to Full Professor does not follow a set timeline, so we ask faculty and department heads/directors to be thoughtful in considering the best timing for review, in light of COVID-19 impacts.

Academic Affairs will work with promotion candidates, review committees, department heads, and deans to document how COVID-19 may have impacted trajectories of growth in teaching, research, and service.

As we are providing flexibility for faculty, we encourage you to also give flexibility and grace to students through making use of the revised COVID-19 grading and eligibility policies, see here for related FAQs<http://click.comms.arizona.edu/?qs=d71c588802d48a06d93541f302415d5d1dcdb09ac932afce03b8c7c949fab4200948ebfe0842df0a537fc84a7b5f041791e8fa7c94a35194>.

We acknowledge that these are highly unusual times and that business as usual is not warranted. We encourage you to take breaks and adjust your expectations of yourself and your students. In times of stress, it is not wise to push too hard. In fact, these are the moments during which we need to take the most care of ourselves and others. You may find the following links useful for yourself, staff, or students:

Tips and campus resources for coping with COVID-19 stress: https://health.arizona.edu/coping-stress-related-covid-19<http://click.comms.arizona.edu/?qs=d71c588802d48a061aa770496536779b64b6553755ba7939f75d9acb8b117e26b117b21669de6bd48f1e1b7b40304a545d2f19eaeda4b56a>.

Life and Work Connections provides support and resources on employee counseling, sick and back up childcare, elder care, nutrition/health coaching, and more: https://lifework.arizona.edu/coronavirus<http://click.comms.arizona.edu/?qs=d71c588802d48a060f28e19ad00d6628d2db1e011f0771405e4e7e59176119c01788fc4b6587b10648071118adebdce47e01f57962dce75a>.

Thank you again for all that you are doing to help our campus community. I have heard so many wonderful examples of caring and help from faculty.

See our website here<http://click.comms.arizona.edu/?qs=d71c588802d48a063eff7fd8e96dfff336776adc986403e3b983584c81c382f3d04175db5766b7dd64a41572db2b78a718267aa843fd4339> for faculty specific COVID-19 information and communication.

Regards,

Andrea Romero
Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs

Our mailing address is:
University of Arizona
PO Box 210066
Tucson, AZ 85721
US

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