Time and Effort Distribution for Compensated Pathways

Academic success requires careful attention to how a faculty member spends his/her time pursuing work in each of the College’s mission areas that are involved in the individual’s job description.  The Promotion and Tenure Committee shall pay serious attention to each faculty member’s reported time and effort distribution(s) over the course of the person’s career within the College.  The quantity of the individual’s contributions to each mission area will be assessed in proportion to the amount of time devoted to each area.  A matrix system will be used to estimate the approximate faculty effort in each of the main areas of academic endeavor: Teaching, Research, Clinical Service, and Leadership/Administrative Service.  With advancing rank, faculty members are expected to be involved in increasing levels of leadership and administrative service.  Faculty members appointed on any pathway are expected to be mindful of their obligations regarding time and effort as stipulated in any research support for which they are responsible. 

Table 1 depicts the range of time & effort that COM faculty members may spend in each mission area, on each compensated academic pathway, and an estimate for a “typical” faculty member on each pathway.  Each faculty member and his/her respective Department Chair share responsibility for ensuring that the individual’s job description conforms to these “time and effort guidelines.”  If an individual’s job description differs significantly from these guidelines, the faculty member and chair will need to explain and justify the discrepancies to the College Promotion and Tenure Committee when requests for promotion and/or tenure are submitted. 

Table 1:  Time and Effort Distribution on the Compensated Pathways

	Basic Scientist-TP (range; typical)	Basic Scientist-NTP (range; typical)	Clinical Scientist (range; typical)	Clinical Educator (range; typical)	Clinical Attending (range; typical)
Teaching/Mentoring	10-35; 30	0-30; 5	5-10; 7.5	10-50; 25	0-30; 20
Research	50-85; 60	90-100; 90	40-90; 75	5-30; 10	0-10; 5
Clinical			10-50; 20	40-80; 80	70-100; 90
Leadership/Admin	0-35*; 10	0-10*; 5	0-10*;2.5	0-20*; 5	0-10*; 5

* Leadership/Administrative Service responsibilities are fundamental to the success of the College, and are fulfilled by faculty members who have established the foundations of their careers.  Thus, newly appointed junior faculty may have little or no administrative service responsibilities.  These duties will increase as their careers mature, including within the later years of appointment as Assistant Professor.