Promotion Information

*NEW as of APRIL 2025*

Tenure and promotion application support for

Indigenous Faculty Members

 

The Office of the Vice-President Indigenous (OVPI) offers a support program specifically for Indigenous Scholars who are preparing their tenure and/or promotion applications.

Our Indigenous Faculty Success Coordinator, Naithan Lagace, is available to assist Indigenous Scholars with:

  1. Creating a timeline for the development of a tenure/promotion package. From initial development to the final stages, we can help create a framework for effective package development.

  2. Identifying and planning for acquiring content for packages, including letters of recommendation from students, community service partners, etc.

  3. Highlighting and articulating experiences within teaching, research, and community service dossiers sections of packages.

Naithan Lagace can be reached by email at naithan.lagace@umanitoba.ca or by phone at 204-599-0053.

 

 

GENERAL PROMOTION INFORMATION 

 

BE PREPARED is the general rule for promotions.

Read the Criteria for Promotions provided by the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, it provides a thorough overview of expectations and helpful information on assembling an application.

The following DFM deadlines allow us to help you through the process while also meeting deadlines the Office of Academic Affairs expects of our department.

Dec 1st - send CV to dfmfaculty@umanitoba.ca for review

January - all potential applicants contacted by DFM with full application package requirements

April 1 - Assistant Professor, Associate Professor applicants: External Assessor Demographics Deadline

March 30th - Previous Year's applicants receive confirmation on promotion completion

July 15 -  DEADLINE for ALL APPLICANTS TO SUBMIT FULL APPLICATION PACKAGE

Sept to Nov - University level and Department level Promotions Committee meetings

 

Don't delay, start assembling the following:

 

Lecturers to Assistant Professor, Instructor I to Instructor II, Instructor II to Senior Instructor

Assemble these items:

  1. CV: current, reflecting your recent activities in teaching, administrative service, and research/scholarship.
  2. Dossiers on your 3 academic areas:
    1. teaching
    2.  research/scholarship (including quality improvement projects, care mapping, conference presentations, etc.)
    3. service/administration to the University and the community.
  3. Evaluations of your teaching from learners 

Link to Dossier info

Link to info on 3 academic areas

 

Assistant Professor to Associate Professor, Associate Professors to Professor

Assemble these items:

  1. CV: current, reflecting your recent activities in teaching, administrative service, and research/scholarship.
  2. Dossiers on your 3 academic areas:
    1. teaching
    2.  research/scholarship (including quality improvement projects, care mapping, conference presentations, etc.)
    3. service/administration to the University and the community.
  3. Evaluations of your teaching from learners 
  4. Three external reviewers and two additional "spare" reviewers:
    1. Must be from outside the U of M
    2. Must have an academic appointment at the rank you're applying for (or higher)

Link to Dossier info

Link to info on 3 academic areas

 

You're strongly encouraged to read through all the documents in the folder below, they are relevant to the promotion application.

 

You are also welcome to read more on the UM's SharePoint website. Have your UM email account and password ready to click on the following this link below where you'll be directed to log into UM's SharePoint site:

Promotion and Tenure Information link on Sharepoint

You may also wish to watch the following video presentation from Vice Dean of Academic Affairs, Dr. Sara Israels regarding Promotion and Tenure, created in Spring 2025. Note - Tenure is not available to Nil-Salaried Appointments.

Academic Career Advancement video on YouTube

 

Questions? Send an email with the subject line PROMOTION to dfmfaculty@umanitoba.ca