Thank You for Agreeing to Evaluate the Credentials of Assistant Professor

Dear Administrator:

Thank you for agreeing to evaluate the credentials of Assistant Professor .

Your evaluation will play an important role in the consideration of _____ for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor that will occur this fall. Please evaluate this material in light of your professional experience and render an assessment accordingly. Note that I appeal to your experience with regard to the overall picture...teaching, research, and service. Your opinion as to whether the candidate appears to have met the standards for each of these areas will be far more valuable than would be a general recommendation that she or he merits tenure and promotion at your institution. To help you in this review, I enclose the School of ___ and the College of Visual and Performing Arts documents governing the granting of tenure and promotion for Texas Tech University faculty. In addition, the criteria for studio faculty are enclosed to provide more context for the process.

To facilitate your review, please find enclosed ______’s curriculum vitae and slide sheets of her/his studio work and student work. Our guidelines require faculty to demonstrate excellence in teaching, achieve excellence and recognition for creative research, and make professional contributions through service.

The voting faculty will be reviewing ______’s file in early September. I would appreciate it greatly if I could have your evaluation, signed and sent on institutional stationery by September 3, 200x. In accordance with university policy, outside letters of recommendation must be solicited on behalf of the candidate and included in the dossier. The entire dossier is subject to the open records act and available to the candidate.

To assist those reviewing the candidate's credentials, would you please include an abbreviated vita of your own professional background. Let me close by thanking you again for your willingness to participate in the peer review process.

Sincerely,

______Professor and Director