Faculty Position Proposal

Use this form to submit proposals for the 2025-26 academic year.
Deadline: November 25, 2024

This short form initiates all teaching position proposals other than tenure track positions. It is designed to allow for academic planning for the next academic year. The Teaching and Scholarship Impact of the position are presented in conjunction with the motivation for the position, especially if it is tenure-track. The 5-7 Value Criteria are the building blocks of any position, and will be fully developed for tenure-line proposals. Departmental and program colleagues should expect to spend the majority of their time discussing and defining their Value Criteria for positions. Proposals for full-time term, part-time, and CFD Scholar positions will be reviewed by the VPAA. These requests are due on November 25, 2024. On the same date, Chairs and Directors who are submitting staffing requests will also submit a staffing summary and projection. Instructions for submitting this document will be provided by early November.

Please make sure to save your work in a separate document first and then copy and paste your answers into this request form.

Department or Program:

Email Address

To receive a copy of your submission

Title of Position (20 words maximum)

Please choose one:

New full-time term position

Extension of a current term-faculty position

Part-time position (including Emeriti)

CFD Scholar

Do you have an internal candidate for this position?

Yes

If proposing an extension for a current term-faculty member or you have an internal candidate, please provide their name.

Motivation for position: What is prompting this proposal? (200 words maximum)

Teaching impact of position: How does this position shape student learning? (200 words maximum)

Scholarship impact of position: What inter/national conversation does this position bring to DePauw? Note that for part-time and Emeriti requests, while you are welcome to answer this question, you are also welcome to simply write: "No specific needs for this part-time position." (100 words maximum)

Value Criteria

For all requests except for Emeriti requests and except for requests that seek to extend a current part-time or full-time faculty member, choose 5-7 Value Criteria: A working description of priorities for the position shared by members of the department, after discussion. These values will be elaborated upon as the proposal develops, and will form the foundation for the job ad, interview questions, candidate assessment, and (if tenure-track) the Appendix B of the position. For Emeriti requests, you may simply type "Emeriti" into the boxes. (20 words per criterion, 5 are required)

Value Criterion 1: STUDENT FOCUS: University-wide but departmentally or programmatically specific value: what does it mean to be student-focused in your department? Does it manifest itself in advising? research? career development? mentoring? Cite as many of these endeavors that your department practices, or is improving in practice, and would seek in a position.

Value Criterion 2: DIVERSITY & INCLUSION: Also a University-wide value, and also to be delineated in connection with the specificities of your department or program. How does your department work to strive for and ensure a multiplicity of perspectives? How do you build community and a sense of belonging for students and colleagues? How can this position contribute to those endeavors?

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Value Criterion 7

List up to five (5) additional departments or programs that your department or program might partner with or benefit from for this position, and what the terms of that partnership might be (cross-listed courses, shared courses, shared resources/equipment). Please describe where your department or program is in these conversations. There will be opportunities later in the process for partner departments and/or programs to submit letters of support and presentation of cross-listed/shared courses and shared resources/equipment.

Department or program

For full time requests, please provide a listing of individuals on the Full-Time Position Request Committee (FTPRC) for this position. Once this proposal has been submitted, it will be sent members of the FTPRC asking for their review of the proposal and for their responses to these two questions: 1)Was this proposal discussed by your department? (yes or no) and 2) Do you support this proposal? (yes/if no, why not?)

List individuals on the Full-Time Position Request Committee (FTPRC)

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