After four years of full-time service at the rank of Senior Faculty Research Assistant I or the accumulation of its equivalent for part time Senior FRAs I at 0.50 FTE or greater.
To be promoted, a candidate must have:
- a sustained record of exceptional achievement and
- evidence of professional growth and
- innovation in assigned duties
In addition, the Department of Horticulture has criteria for the Promotion to Senior Faculty Research Assistant II:
- Sustained record - On-going, continuous pattern observed throughout the four years of full-time service at the rank of SFRA-I as documented in their CV.
- Exceptional achievement - outputs and outcomes or impacts (achievements) or contributions in collaboration with others. Exceptional fulfillment of duties in the position description
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Evidence of professional growth (the word growth means increase) (the word professional suggests skills, responsibility, competence, leadership). This might be demonstrated or verified in a number of ways such as:
- increased technical skills related to requirements of position description
- individual has assumed increased responsibility or in other ways demonstrated initiative
- increased leadership might be in the form of mentoring of faculty and staff in areas of the candidate’s expertise, assuming more complex administrative tasks, expanded service activities
- development of new skill sets or significant expansion of existing skills
- Evidence of scholarship - Completion of classes or technical training that improves the candidate’s current skills or develops new skills that contribute in important ways to the program.
- Innovation in assigned duties - Significant contributions in the form of new ideas, increased efficiencies creativity, creative approaches, problem solving, discoveries.