
UC San Diego Department Standards for Academic Advancement
Candidates proposed for appointment, merit, appraisal, and/or promotion shall be judged with respect to a candidate's performance in teaching, research and other creative work, professional activity, and University and public service as determined by the candidate's proposed academic series, rank, duties, and field of study.
Per PPM 230-220, acceleration proposals must address the department standards for normal merit advancement and articulate how the candidate’s performance is exceptional. In parallel with normal merit advancement progress, the criteria for both good and exceptional performance become more rigorous with rank and step.
Such proposals should address established departmental standards and articulate how a candidate's performance meets or exceed said standards.
Department Standards for Academic Advancement may not consider race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, and/or other protected categories as part of the assessment and advancement of academic appointees.
Below is a repository of established departmental standards distributed by school.
UC San Diego General Campus
Colleges
Jacobs School of Engineering
Bioengineering
Computer Sciences & Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
- Ladder Rank
- Teaching Professors- Under Revision
Nano Engineering
- Ladder Rank- Under Revision
- Teaching Professors- Under Revision
Structural Engineering
Qualcomm Institute
Rady School of Management
School of Arts and Humanities
Division of Arts and Humanities
Literature
Music
Philosophy
Theatre & Dance
Visual Arts
Analytical Writing Program
History
Literature
Music
Philosophy
Theatre & Dance
Visual Arts
School of Biological Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Cell & Developmental Biology
Ecology, Behavior & Evolution
Molecular Biology
Neurobiology
School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences
School of Social Sciences
Anthropology
Cognitive Science
- Standards for Advancement- Under Revision
Communication
Economics
Ethnic Studies
Education Studies
Linguistics
- Ladder Rank- Under Revision
- Teaching Professors
Psychology
Political Sciences
- Ladder Rank and Teaching Professors- Under Revision
Sociology
Urban Studies Program
School of Global Policy & Strategy
- Ladder Rank
- NSF Unit 18 Faculty- Under Revision
School of Physical Sciences
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Physics
UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography
UC San Diego Health Sciences
Health Sciences
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Department Standards for each series in each Department or School are available.
- School of Medicine
- Anesthesiology
- Cellular & Molecular Medicine
- Dermatology
- Emergency Medicine
- Family Medicine
- Medicine
- Neurosciences
- Neurological Surgery
- Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopaedic Surgery
- Otolaryngology
- Pathology
- Pediatrics
- Pharmacology
- Psychiatry
- Radiation Medicine & Applied Sciences
- Radiology
- Surgery
- Urology
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science