This page is designed for department/area/unit heads, directors, and other academic leaders. Review our Academic Leadership and Academic Support Contacts list. You can provide direct comments, revisions, and additions to this list.
Resources can be found in the Unit Heads Sharepoint folder. If you need access to this folder or would like a designee to have access to these materials, please contact Katy Krieger (kkrieger@uoregon.edu).
Meeting information, resources, important academic news, and more can be found below:
Meetings
Each term the Office of the Provost will offer a “Timely Updates” meeting to ensure unit heads are informed of the campus wide changes or timely information. These will be interactive with time for questions to be answered. The intended audience includes academic department heads, school heads, associate deans, area directors, program directors, etc., but all interested academic leaders are welcome! Email Sierra Dawson with questions, accommodation needs, and more. Upcoming Timely Updates meetings: Fall term; October 27th, 9:00am to 10:30am, EMU 214 Redwood Auditorium, Winter term; February 24th, 9:00am to 10:30am, EMU 214 Redwood Auditorium. Spring term; April 28th, 9:00am to 10:30am, EMU 214 Redwood Auditorium.
DATE & TIME | AUdience | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
Friday, October 9, 9:30 - 10:30am | Department heads | Unit head’s role in the tenure review process |
Friday, October 16, 9:30 - 10:30am | Career instructional faculty and department heads | Preparing for career instructional faculty promotion or continuous employment review |
Friday, October 23, 9:30 - 10:30am | Tenure-track and career faculty | Preparing your sabbatical application for next year |
Friday, October 30, 9:30 - 10:30am | Pre-tenure tenure-track faculty | Preparing your tenure file |
Friday, November 6, 9:30 - 10:30am | Tenured faculty and department heads | Preparing for post-tenure review |
Friday, November 13, 9:30 - 10:30am | All faculty, department heads, and staff | Faculty reviews in general (open topic): Promotion, tenure, reviews & reclassification |
Monday, November 16, 1:00 - 2:00pm | Career research faculty, department heads, supervisors | Preparing for career research faculty promotion or continuous employment review |
The VPAA convenes a group of Associate/Divisional Deans for Faculty (and related faculty personnel roles) once per term to discuss timely updates, answer questions, generate feedback, and support their work. Please email Renee Irvin (vpaa@uoregon.edu) for more information about these meetings.
- Fall term: TBA
- Winter term: TBA
- Spring term: TBA
This is a shared biweekly meeting between the OtP faculty personnel team and all Schools and Colleges' faculty personnel teams. Email Renee Irvin (vpaa@uoregon.edu) for more information about these meetings.
HOST | DATE/TIME | LOCATION | INFORMATION |
|---|---|---|---|
Renee Irvin, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs | Fridays 10:30am-11:30am | Johnson Hall 206 or call (541) 346-2155 | Faculty reviews, promotion, tenure, sabbaticals, named and endowed positions, emeriti approval, and other faculty personnel concerns |
Ron Bramhall, Associate Vice Provost for Academic Affairs | Tuesdays and Fridays from 9:00am-10:00am | Policies, academic programming, and program review/assessment | |
Katy Krieger, Director of Faculty Personnel & Policy and Jenny Talusan, Program Manager | Teams/email to schedule over summer |
| Faculty personnel work including major reviews, faculty personnel tool use and implementation, recruitment and retention, TTF Offers, IHP, OtP policies, etc. |
Austin Hocker, Assistant Vice Provost for Data & Decision-Making | Wednesdays from 10-11am | Data and assessment support | |
Carolyn Vogt, Online Operations Manage and Executive Assistant | Thursdays 9:00am-10:00am | Curricular approval process and the UO Committee on courses |
Unit heads are encouraged to fill out their own version of the major reviews deadlines table with internal unit/department and school/college deadlines.
REVIEW TYPE AND RESOURCE | MATERIAL DUE TO OTP |
|---|---|
10/23/2026 (for AY25-26 reviewees) | |
TTF Promotion and Tenure (all schools/colleges except CAS) | 1/23/2027 |
5/1/2027 | |
Promotion and Tenure (CAS) | 3/15/2027 |
4/1/2027 | |
3/1/2027 to OVPRI 4/30/2027 to OtP | |
4/15/2027 |
Review and Promotion Policies: Updated policies will be posted to the department policies webpage Fall 2026.
See the unit policy review process page for details, links to the templates, and resources.