The purpose of this review is to set expectations for the upcoming tenure review period. This plan outlines the faculty member's goals, activities, and expected outcomes for the review period. The plan is intended to support continued professional growth, sustained excellence, and alignment with departmental, college, and institutional priorities.
This is a roadmap of your activity for the next five (5) years.
Tenured faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham must complete a Post-Tenure Review Plan by December 31, 2026.
Tenured faculty will complete a Post-Tenure Review Plan Form (PTRPF) by clicking on the link to your respective school/college. Once the form is completed, route to your department chair or supervisor for review and approval, and they will schedule a time to review and discuss your PTRPF.
The Review, Promotion, and Tenure Liaison (RPT) for your unit is also available to assist you with the post-tenure review plan process and provide further instructions.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Regarding goals, should these include goals for general faculty duties, or also include goals for admin roles, such as Dept Chair, Asst Dean, Director, etc.?
Department Chairs and Associate/Assistant Deans do not need to complete this form. We are working with the deans to develop a separate form for faculty serving in those roles. All other tenured faculty should include goals for both their faculty responsibilities and any administrative roles they hold.
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Faculty are required to submit PTR paperwork after how many years since tenure was awarded?
All faculty who hold tenure must complete the PTR form, regardless of when they received tenure.
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Why is the link not opening for me?
If you run into issues with the PTRP link opening, try closing out your browser and retrying or using an alternate browser like Microsoft Edge.
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How do I add special characters into the PDF?
If unable to represent a special character in Adobe, we recommend copying and pasting the special character you need.
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Can I save my in-progress plan?
Yes! Once you open your unit's PTRP link and begin filling it out, click the top right blue Save for later button. This will prompt you to put in your name and UAB email as well as your required signers for your PTRP.
This will make your saved form accessible by an email link. Once you complete your form, it will then send to your assigned signers.
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What happens if a department chair/supervisor, dean/dean delegate, or division director has changes to make to the plan and declines to sign the plan?
If an approver declines to sign a PTRP to make changes, this will cancel the PTRP agreement, and the process will have to be started again incorporating the new changes. There are a couple of options for this:
- Faculty can access their filled answers from a cancelled PTRP agreement from their homepage after signing into Adobe Sign under Recent Agreements but will have to resubmit the PTRP from their unit link after incorporating changes.
- Faculty open the PTRP link, fill out their plan, and select Save for later. This will draft their plan and allow the signature workflow to go out after review with the appropriate supervisor.
- Faculty keep a separate Word document of the PTRP template to review with the appropriate supervisor. Then the final plan can be input in the Adobe Sign link for approval.