The Drexel Assessment Conference, American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, The Hawaii International Conference on Education, NCORE, etc. to stay current in her field

In making this recommendation, I have reviewed the promotion application, the supplemental reviews and evaluations as specified in the Checklist for Promotion, and the criteria for promotion as stated in Section 2.6.2.1 of the Faculty Handbook. I have taken into consideration the recommendations of the Unit Committee, Chair, Dean, and University Committee. The Unit Committee, the Chair, and the Dean all voted unanimously to recommend promotion to associate professor with tenure. However, the University Tenure and Promotion Committee disagrees with them. Their major objections were: One, limited teaching experience in higher education in a full-time capacity; two, Dr. Emanuel's record of scholarly contribution is limited in scope and is not within the expected level of contribution for the rank of an associate professor.

I examined the policy herewith cited and offer the following. The policy requires five years of full time teaching or its equivalency as determined by the unit supervisor, appropriate dean, and the provost. Surely, thirteen years of part-time teaching is equivalent to five years of full-time teaching? The unit supervisor (chair) and the appropriate dean thought so—that’s why they recommended promotion to the rank of associate professor and that’s why they also recommended tenure. Additionally, if equivalency is never considered, NO administrator hired without rank or tenure could ever earn it for they could never be an administrator and a FULL-TIME faculty.

Second, the University Tenure and Promotion Committee, unanimously asserted that Dr. Emanuel’s scholarship is “limited in scope” and “is not within the expected level of contribution for the rank of an associate professor”. I really don’t understand what “limited in scope” means. I do know what the expected level of contribution for the rank means. To be sure, the levels of maturity across disciplines are uneven. I have reviewed dossiers where there was one publication and there was a recommendation for associate professor with tenure; there have been excuses made for why certain candidates don’t have more publications, I’ve seen it all. In this case, Dr. Emanuel has presented at over 13 conferences—some of the most prestigious in the field: NCORE (The National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education), three presentations at HICE (The Hawaii International Conference on Education), and two presentations at the “granddaddy of all education research organizations”, AERA (The American Educational Research Association). In addition to her presentations, Dr. Emanuel has one book chapter in Gumbo for the Soul II, research in the International Conference Proceedings on Education in Athens, Greece, a publication in Forest of the Rain, and she has one book contract with Information Age Press, Purveyors of Change: Leaders of Color Tell Their Stories. Additionally, Dr. Emanuel has been a conference reviewer for AERA, on the review board of The Journal of Education and Urban Society and West Virginia University Press. So limited in scope is not the reason and she DOES have enough scholarly activity for the rank change at Kentucky State University. My “gut”