General Resources

Key tools, policies, and support for University of Minnesota faculty and academic leaders. Here you’ll find guidance on hiring, promotion and tenure, professional development, leadership roles, awards, and retirement planning. These resources are designed to help you navigate your responsibilities, strengthen your career, and contribute to the University’s mission of teaching, research, and service.

• VPFAA Calendar
• Resources for Chairs & Heads

Policies and Guides

• Academic Professionals
  • Administrative Guidelines, Criteria, and Procedures for Review of Probationary Academic Professionals Considered for Continuous Appointment
  • Academic Professional Class Series, Job Codes, Titles, Appointment Types and Promotions
• Awards and Recognition
  • Awards and Recognition Quick Guide
• Conflict Resolution
  • Quick Guide: Reporting to SPA in Event of Investigator Harassment Charge
  • Complaint Handling Guidelines
• Recruitment, Hiring, and Appointments
  • Employee Recruitment and Retention (Board Policy)
  • Employee Group Definitions (Board Policy)
  • Faculty Emeriti (Board Policy)
• Retirement
  • Retirement guide for faculty
  • Faculty retirement guide for chairs
• Sabbaticals
  • Policy: Faculty Development Leaves
• Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
  • Policy: Faculty Tenure
  • Procedures for Reviewing Candidates for Tenure and/or Promotion: Tenure-Track and Tenured Faculty
  • 7.12 Statements
  • UMN Standard CV Template

Forms and Memos

• Memo: 2025-2026 Annual Appraisals of Probationary Faculty
  • UM Form 12: Annual Appraisal of Probationary Faculty (updated 10/2025)
• Memo: 2025-2026 Promotion and Tenure
  • UM Form 1910: Request for Extension of Maximum Probationary Period
• Memo: 2025-2026 Continuous Appointments
  • UM Form 26: Appraisal of Probationary Academic Professionals on Continuous Appointment Track
  • UM Form 1627: Extension of Maximum Period of Probationary Service for Continuous Track Academic Professionals
• Memo: FY27 Sabbaticals Support Fund
• UM Form 13: Promotional Review of Tenured Associate Professors

Other Resources

• Members of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers (ADT) provide important leadership to the University community, serving as mentors, advisers, and spokespersons for the University’s teaching mission.
• The Center for Educational Innovation leads and supports major strategic educational initiatives that advance the systemwide strategic plan as well as the teaching and learning mission of the University.
• The Office for Public Engagement promotes faculty members' involvement in research, teaching, and outreach that benefits from our connections with local, national, and global communities.
• The Office for Equity and Diversity advances inclusive excellence in all aspects of the University.
• Talent Strategy fosters a culture of leadership development throughout the University.
• The Women's Faculty Cabinet seeks to improve and enrich the academic and professional environments for women faculty at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.