Promotion and Tenure
University resources
Promotion and tenure policies for tenured and tenure-track faculty, faculty on the continued appointment track, non-tenure-track instructional faculty and research faculty are spelled out in chapters three, four, five and six respectively of the faculty handbook.
For complete university guidelines and resources, please visit the provost's site.
The promotion and tenure process begins at the department level, and continues through the college to the university level. The provost's staff provides support to the university promotion and tenure committee and oversees the process.
College resources
College of Engineering Promotion and Tenure Guidelines 2025-2026
Teaching Survey Summary 2024-2025
Teaching Survey Summary Archive
This COE peer evaluation of teaching template is intended to provide an approach that departments may choose to adopt and/or adapt as desired. It was developed based on inputs from some of the top teachers across the College of Engineering as identified by Department Heads, many of whom have teaching-intensive faculty appointments, with the support of an NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education grant (DUE- 2215989). The template is designed for consistency with and to support the intent of peer teaching reviews in Virginia Tech’s Promotion and Tenure Guidelines (https://faculty.vt.edu/promotion-tenure.html).