# Prepare my faculty merit, tenure, or promotion file

Organizes your teaching, research, and service into a persuasive, evidence-backed academic file with a strong narrative statement.

- Topic: Career & Job Search
- Framework: Few-Shot
- Level: Standard
- Tags: Career, Education, Research, Analyze, Explain & Teach, Fill-in Template
- Source: https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/prompts/prepare-my-faculty-merit-tenure-or-promotion-file

## Prompt

```text
Help me prepare my faculty merit, tenure, or promotion file.

**Review type and stage:** [annual merit / reappointment / tenure / promotion to full professor]
**Institution type and weighting:** [e.g. "teaching-focused college, 60% teaching"; paste the criteria or guidelines if I have them]
**Teaching:** [courses, enrollments, evaluations, new courses or methods, mentoring, advising, student outcomes]
**Research or creative work:** [publications, grants, presentations, works in progress]
**Service and engagement:** [committees, program or curriculum work, community outreach, professional service]
**Cross-institutional or international work:** [collaborations, conferences, exchange teaching]
**Weak spots I am worried about:** [e.g. "a low evaluation semester", "publication gap"]

Deliver:
1. **A map of my evidence against each criterion,** showing where it is strong, thin, or missing.
2. **Narrative statement draft** for each area (teaching, research, service), framed as a coherent story of growth and impact, not a list. Tie claims to evidence such as evaluation trends, student work, citations, or program changes.
3. **How to address weak spots** honestly and constructively.
4. **Supporting documents checklist:** what to include (syllabi, peer observations, student feedback excerpts, letters, impact data) and how to organize it.
5. **A reviewer's-eye check:** questions a committee is likely to ask and where my file answers them.

Use only the accomplishments I give you; mark gaps as [ADD EVIDENCE]. Follow my institution's guidelines over general advice wherever they differ.
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## What to fill in

- publications, grants, presentations, works in progress
- collaborations, conferences, exchange teaching
- e.g. "a low evaluation semester", "publication gap"
- ADD EVIDENCE

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