Workshops
Department & College Personnel Committee Workshops
Materials distributed at MSP's September 2025 Personnel Committee workshop sessions:
- MSP PowerPoint
- Master Calendar Timelines for PC Members
- AFR & Merit Info and Deadlines (UPDATED)
- PC Chair Responsibilities
- Academic Personnel Policy (aka REDBOOK) -- for standards and criteria
- MSP Contract -- Article 12 (for process in major personnel actions)
- Provost's Annual Tenure & Promotion Memo
- Outside Reviewer Templates
Pre-Tenure Workshops
Materials distributed at MSP's March 2025 Pre-Tenure workshop sessions:
- MSP PowerPoint Presentation
- Table of Contents
- Tenure Review Timelines
- The C's You Need to Heed For Success at Tenure Time
- Promotion, Tenure, and the Engaged Scholar: Keeping the Scholarship of Engagement in the Review Process
- Article 12 (MSP Contract). Faculty Personnel Standards and Procedures
- Articles IV, V and VI of the Academic Personnel Policy of UMass (aka Redbook)
- MSP Guide to the Tenure Process
- Research Impact Indicators & Metrics
- Documents on Provost Website
Promotion to Full Professor Workshops
Materials distributed at MSP's February 2025 Promotion to Full Professor workshop sessions:
- MSP PowerPoint Presentation
- Supplementary Packet (PDF)
- Table of Contents
- Promotion to Full Professor Review Timelines
- Standards, Procedures & Rights of Faculty Members
- Frequently Asked Questions
- What MSP Can Do For You
- Provost's Annual Memo on Promotion & Tenure
- Solicitation Letter Template for Outside Reviewers
Senior Lecturer Promotion Workshops
Materials distributed at MSP's November 2025 Senior Lecturer promotion workshop sessions:
- Table of Contents
- Promotion Review Timelines
- Standards & Criteria, Eligibility, Timing and Procedures
- Frequently Asked Questions
- What MSP Can Do For You
- MSP PowerPoint Presentation
Retirement Workshop
Materials distributed at MSP's April 2025 workshop:
- MSP PowerPoint Presentation
- HR's "Retiring and Thinking about Retirement" Webpage
- Emeritus Status Trustee Policy & Process
- Phased Retirement (ORP only) -- application
- Post Retirement -- application
Multi-Union Non-Citizen and Immigrant Support Planning
Materials distributed at the April 17, 2025 UMass Amherst event:
- PDF of slides
- G-28 Form (for attorney representation -- complete full form, except you can leave the portion naming the attorney blank)
- G-28 Form instructions
Immigration Enforcement: Know Your Rights for UMass Amherst Unions
Materials distributed at the Feb 28, 2025 UMass Amherst multi-union workshop featurng MTA lawyers:
Periodic Multi-Year Review (PMYR) Workshop
Materials distributed at MSP's October 2022 PMYR workshop session:
- MSP PowerPoint Presentation
- Review Timelines
- MSP Contract Language (Article 34)
- MSP Contract Language (Appendix A)
- PMYR Process Outline
- PMYR Statement Hints
- Frequently Asked Questions
- PMYR Funding Request Form
- Center for Teaching and Learning -- PMYR Grant Guidelines
- 2021 Board of Trustee Report
Joint MSP/Administration Departmental Bylaws Workshops
All academic departments are required to have bylaws. Joint MSP/Administration workshops were held for each college in February 2016 to aid in this process. Below are some resources faculty may find useful in developing bylaws:
- Suggested content of academic department bylaws
- Faculty Senate/Trustee documents relevant to bylaw development
- Senate Doc 82-021--Evaluation of academic administrators
- Senate Doc 90-029--Search & appointment procedures for deans, department chairs/heads and academic program directors
- Senate Doc 90-029C--Search & appointment procedures for deans, department chairs/heads & academic program directors (supersedes part of 90-029)
- Senate Doc 96-006A--Review & retention of administrators (overview only)
- Trustee Doc 76-081--Academic Personnel Policy (the Red Book)