• Think about annual review as you complete projects, submit grants and papers, plan new activities.
• Keep an up-to-date Vita and list of the year's activities.
• Create a template for your annual review early and add to it regularly.
• Use the mid-career review as a mock tenure review.
• Look at University, College, and Department Promotion and Tenure documents early. Make a folder for each section in "Criteria for Tenure, Permanent Status and Promotion" (University document, Faculty Handbook) and put items in these folders as you do your professional work.
• Understand your responsibilities and design your goals in scholarship, research, teaching, and service with those responsibilities in mind.
• Identify what kinds of publications are most valued in your department.
• Work towards a continuity in your research agenda.
• Don't let teaching evaluations terrorize you.
• Get peer reviews.
• Emphasize innovation as you document your work.
• Save documentation of your work, including acceptance letters, conference programs, cards and letters, commendatory e-mails.
• Set a timeline for submitting materials outside of the institution. Any external review is important feedback on your work.

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• Official mentors may not give you all you need. Be sure to seek out advice beyond your official mentor when necessary.
• Think about choosing a mentor from outside of your department.

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• Let students know what you are doing and they will communicate your work to others.
• Avoid over attachment and over reaction by assuming a playful and tentative stance. Seek out and learn from criticism while not reacting emotionally to it.
• Moderate Classroom incivilities- such as students who arrive late, noisily, or who persist in talking when someone else has the floor— with simple strategies of openness, pacing and patience.
• Try to recruit grad students at conferences.
• Look for teaching grants.
• Don't change your course text too often.
• Remember: it usually takes teaching a course three times before it is perfected
• Try to contain your teaching to the proper percentage of your work time.
• Be aware that the nature of graduate education makes it much more time-consuming than other forms of teaching. Don't take on weak grad students without a clear plan for addressing the weaknesses.. Be sure to ask graduate students "why" they want you on their committees and make sure it is a good expenditure of your time. Try to balance your commitment to graduate students with your other commitments to teaching, research and service.

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• Do some of your writing with others as a way to hold yourself accountable.
• Get a co-PI on grants. Working with established researchers can help you obtain your first grants.
• Apply for University Research Grants (URG), since they are designed to support new faculty.
• Be accountable to someone for writing deadlines (use mentor or collaborators).
• Limit the number of your projects. It is easier to work on a series of related issues. Be strategic in your planning.

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• Choose service commitments carefully; try to match service with your other intellectual interests where possible.
• Be sure to do some department work so that your colleagues will get to know you and see that you are contributing to the common effort.
• Talk to many of your colleagues about expectations for service.
• Aim to develop a mix of departmental, university and national or international service over time.

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• Center for Instructional Technology and Training

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• Remember you are great! We hired you because we think so and you should too.
• Treat support staff well.
• Maintain a holistic vision of the world of academics, connecting teaching and research.
• Keep a notebook to jot down ideas, responses, goals, and frustrations--an academic journal of sorts.
• Create thinking time.
• Learn to say "NO".
• Don't be shy about promoting yourself. Determine why your work is necessary in an AAU, Land Grant University as UF. Make sure people know about your ongoing research projects and accomplishments.

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• Boice, Robert. Advice for New Faculty Members. 2000. Needham Heights: MA, Allyn and Bacon.
• Carlson, Susan, "New Faculty Tips." October 21, 2001. Iowa State University .
• Rice, R.E., Sorcinelli, M.D. Austin A.E. 2000. Heeding New Voices: Academic Careers for a New Generation. Washington, D.C. American Association for Higher Education.
• Sorcinelli, M.D. 2000. Principles of Good Practice: Supporting Early Career Faculty. Washington, D.C. American Association of Higher Education.

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• Check the Faculty Development website for New Faculty Orientation, to find dates and locations for upcoming orientation sessions. During orientation, you will learn about UF policies and procedures, benefits and financial services, technology resources, campus information, faculty organizations, and much more. 

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• You will receive benefits information from Human Resource Services during the New Faculty Orientation. Your benefits options vary. You can review faculty benefits on the UF Human Resource Services website.
• For specific information on university-level benefits, consult the Faculty Handbook and/or contact Human Resource Services at 352-392-1251 or jmmalph *at* nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu .

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• For more on payroll and technicalities, visit University Payroll Services and/or contact the Provost's Academic Personnel Office.

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• There are several requirements for tenure at the University of Florida , usually including teaching, research, and service. The review process includes university (Presidential and Academic Personnel Board), college, and department-level requirements.
• To determine university-level expectations, check out the Faculty Handbook and the UF Regulation 6C1-7.019 (PDF).  For each review, you will submit a summary of your accomplishments in the UF Vita format.  Forms can be located at the Academic Personnel Office .
• Furthermore, check out official UF Regulations.

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• Check with your department and/or the Provost's Office about which activities count as service for you.
• Service activities could include departmental committees, membership in professional organizations, attending graduation ceremonies, advising students, serving on thesis committees, and so on.

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• Check out the list of University Committees on which faculty members may serve.

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• Check out the list of UF Policies on the General Counsel's site, including topics like Mass Email policy (requires Gatorlink authentication to sign in), IP Policy (PDF), Privacy Policy (PDF), Export Control Policy, Legal FAQs etc.
• Further check out official UF Regulations (and subscribe to receive email notices).

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• Check out the Faculty Handbook sections on Teaching and Students which outline and link such policies and procedures.
• The UF Counseling Center provides an excellent source on managing teacher-student interactions in a classroom setting.

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• Besides the UF Regulation on Academic Dishonesty (PDF) and the Faculty Handbook's Resources for Students, which outline your responsibilities and steps to take, consult the matter with your Chair and the Dean of Student's Academic Dishonesty site, which includes the student honor code, the judicial process, FERPA or Buckley Amendment etc.

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• The Office of Research and Graduate Programs has a wealth of funding information and links. Visit the site for help on grants and sponsored research, UF Research Foundation grants or consult their Researcher's Handbook.
• For detailed information on research policies, check out the Faculty Handbook's Research and Scholarship section.

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• The Office of the Provost has listings of the Faculty Handbook and more, with sections covering research support, teaching support, student support, campus services etc.

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• The Office of Academic Technology has an extensive site on faculty services, including sections on Instructional Support, WebCT Vista Online Course Management, Software Licensing Services etc.

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• The Business Services Division is the central office for all things related to Faculty Gator 1 ID card, parking and faculty decals, UF Bookstore etc.
• The Office of Information Technology has an extensive list of faculty related services including Gatorlink (email) accounts, computer accounts and listserves.

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• Just because the system is referred to as "Electronic Reserve", doesn't mean that the Library only provides electronic access to reserves materials! Traditional Hard Copy Reserves still exist.
• Students will still go to the UF Library's E-Reserve system to find the information they will need in order to request the reserve item at the desk.

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• With the advent of the internet, new scanning technology and e-'everything', more and more classroom materials, many supplemental readings, lecture notes, and other course materials are being made available online on Ares, the electronic reserve management system at UF Libraries.

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• Here at UF, being a non-profit educational institution, many uses of copyrighted materials can be considered fair use.

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• Hard Copy Reserves are offered in all campus libraries, with books, videos, DVDs, and other materials on reserve behind the circulation desk, usually at the library of your choice.
• E-Reserves are available online!! Students need their active Gatorlink ID and password, with further E-Reserve instructions here.
• Typically, Hard Copy Reserve items have a checkout period of two hours and students are not permitted to take the materials out of the library during that period. However, other checkout options are available upon request.

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• Submit your list through the UF Library's Online Reserve Request service.

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• For complete information, go to the UF Library's Instructor's Guide to Reserves, with sections on Hard Copy Reserves, Electronic Reserves, How To Get Started and FAQs.
• Check out other available UF Library Services.

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