Personnel Reviews
Senate faculty and continuing lecturers undergo regular personnel reviews, with the intent of achieving reappointment, promotion, or merit increases, depending on individual circumstances of hire and career advancement.
The Academic Personnel Office facilitates the recruitment, appointment, advancement, and retention of the most qualified and diverse faculty and academic appointees possible, and you will find important information regarding the process of personnel reviews there:
- Academic Personnel Office (APO)
- Divisional Academic Personnel Coordinators
- APO Academic Advancement Resources
The committee comprised of senate faculty which makes recommendations to the Chancellor of UC Santa Cruz on appointments, promotions, salaries, and other matters related to the quality of the Faculty.
- Committee on Academic Personnel (CAP)
- CAP's Top Ten Tips for Faculty Preparing Personnel Files
- CAP's Best Practices for Personnel Reviews in Text-Based Disciplines (Humanities Division and Social Sciences Division)
Below are further resources to help you prepare for your personnel review, including tips for personal statements, and more general advice for mapping out your path to tenure.
- CCA's Tips on the Path to Tenure
- Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media, (Modern Language Association)
- The Pursuit of Collective Excellence in Research at the University of California (UCOP)
- Departmental Personnel Review Standards (example from the History of Art and Visual Culture Department, UCSC)
DivData Review is a campus-built system supporting academic personnel reviews:
Teaching resources:
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