Promotion

Hi blog folks. I’m going up for promotion this year. If my work has been useful to you in practice, I ask you to respond to the below letter.

Hello,

In December 2, Professors Dave Lankes will be considered for promotion to full professor. This is one of the most important decisions we make with respect to faculty and so we sincerely request that you, as a student of Professor Lankes, help our deliberations by submitting an evaluation of him to be added to the body of evidence being collected for his case.

You are asked to comment on Professor Lankes’s teaching and advising and his contributions to the School and the profession. Please specify in what context you interacted with him (as advisor, coursework, independent study, research, and so on).

Please note that Professor Lankes has waived his right of access to the responses you make. This means that your letter will be held in the strictest confidence and that only members of the evaluation committee will see it.

In order to be eligible for consideration, your letter must reach us by November 28, 2010. The letter must be signed and in a sealed envelope. Otherwise, the evaluation committee will not see it. You may email me a copy and follow by a signed copy if you want to get the letter in the last minute. The letters may be left for me at faculty services in 245 Hinds Hall or sent to the address below.

We thank you for your contribution to this process. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Sincerely,

Jian Qin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Chair, Personnel Committee
School of Information Studies
Syracuse University
311 Hinds Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244
http://eslib.ischool.syr.edu/