This document serves as a supplement to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Standards of Competence and Performance to provide additional expectations appropriate to the department’s discipline. It serves to clarify how the collegiate standards can be applied and evaluated within the department.
Department values statement
The School of Music is dedicated to the sustenance and advancement of musical cultures found in the academy and in society at large, recognizing the expanding character of musical arts in contemporary life and meeting the challenges of this development with imagination and positive action. The School’s vision for itself is to be an internationally recognized unit that consistently attracts world-class faculty, students, and guests. We believe that all faculty should participate in the recruitment, retention, and mentorship of all students, depending on area needs. We aspire to leadership roles in the teaching, research, performance and advancement of music. The School of Music holds engagement with and accessibility to the performing arts as core values.
Basic expectations for all faculty
All tracks and ranks
Teaching
- Faculty are expected to maintain high standards of teaching excellence, fostering engaging learning environments that support student success.
Tenure-track faculty expectations
All tenure-track ranks
Research
- Each tenure-track faculty member, if part of their contractual effort allocation, will maintain a sustained record of scholarly and/or creative work. This includes contributions to the field on an annual basis.
- Each tenure-track faculty member’s research will advance the faculty member’s national and international professional reputation.
Assistant professor
Service
- Assistant professors will assume an appropriate level of service commensurate to their rank.
Associate professor
Teaching
- Associate professors will provide effective mentorship to students and guide them successfully toward degree completion.
Research
- Associate professors will build and document a steadily increasing professional research reputation.
Service
- Associate professors will broaden the scope of their service contributions within the School of Music.
- Senior faculty will engage in the faculty promotion and tenure process and will provide mentorship and support to junior faculty, especially at the request of the DEO as part of the School of Music’s faculty mentoring program.
Full professor
Teaching
- Full professors will provide effective mentorship to students and guide them successfully toward degree completion.
Research
- Full professors will continue to advance their national and international professional reputation through their scholarly and/or creative research agenda.
Service
- Full professors will broaden their service contributions within the School of Music, university at large, and generally within the profession. This may include taking on leadership roles in various committees.
- Senior faculty will engage in the faculty promotion and tenure process and will provide mentorship and support to junior faculty, especially at the request of the DEO as part of the School of Music’s faculty mentoring program.
Instructional-track faculty expectations
Assistant professor of instruction/practice
Service
- Assistant professors of instruction/practice will assume an appropriate level of service commensurate to their rank.
Associate professor of instruction/practice
Service
- Associate professors of instruction/practice will broaden the scope of service contributions within the department.
- Senior faculty will engage in the instructional-track faculty review and promotion process and will provide mentorship and support to junior faculty, especially at the request of the DEO as part of the School of Music’s faculty mentoring program.
Full professor of instruction/practice
Service
- Professors of instruction/practice will broaden the scope of service contributions within the department, to include leadership in faculty review committees as well as to the college and/or university.
- Senior faculty will engage in the instructional-track faculty review and promotion process and will provide mentorship and support to junior faculty, especially at the request of the DEO as part of the School of Music’s faculty mentoring program.