Promotion Workshops

The information below is for the 2025-2026 Promotion Cycle 

In harmony with our mission to cultivate and connect institutional structures for faculty advancement, Faculty Affairs has developed these workshop series to support faculty and administrators 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

  • Watch video workshop in EDGE Learning 
    • You will need to click "Enroll" and then "Continue" to view the video workshop. 
  • This presentation provides an overview of the review process for career-track faculty candidates only. The parts of the dossier and best practices where candidates can document their innovation in the dossier are reviewed. To get the most out of this presentation, participants should download and review our 2026-2026 Guide to the Career-Track Promotion Process.

Crafting your Candidate Statement for Promotion (Section 5)

  • Watch video 
  • To get started on preparing the candidate statements to introduce the promotion dossiers, participants in this workshop will learn:
    • 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 Publicly Engaged Scholarship. Candidate Statements provide an opportunity for associate professors to discuss their institutional leadership and impact.

Putting together the Teaching Portfolio and Resources (Section 6)

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

  • Watch video 
  • ​​​​The University’s Publicly Engaged Scholarship recognizes the integral relations among research, teaching, service, and outreach. To enable candidates to document their broader contributions, this presentation 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

2025-2026 Promotion Cycle Coming Soon!!!

Promotion Peer Review Committee Training 

2025-2026 Promotion Cycle Coming Soon!!!

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

  • Watch this video workshop in EDGE Learning: Faculty Profile – RPT for Faculty Affairs Coordinators 
  • Learn how to manage your area’s promotion reviews online with Review, Promotion, and Tenure (RPT).  This workshop will train staff on how 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

  • Watch video workshop
  • This 13-minute training walks through the Review, Promotion, and Tenure (RPT) system for associate deans, department heads, and peer reviewers.

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

  • Watch video workshop in EDGE Learning
  • You will be able to download the 2025-26 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 video workshop in EDGE Learning
  • You will be able to download the 2025-26-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