Advocate Dossier Guidance
As an Advocate, you serve as the faculty's designated representative throughout the promotion review process. Selected by the faculty under review, you present their case, answer questions during committee deliberations, and help ensure that reviewers have the information needed to evaluate the dossier.
As Advocate, you represent the faculty who invited you to serve in this role:
- during the department meeting when you present and answer questions.
- at the unit-level (APT) meeting when you present to the committee and answer questions.
- at the Advocacy meeting, if it occurs.
As Advocate, you must:
- be a faculty member or recent emeritus at UB or Roswell Park. Comprehensive Cancer Center.
- be from the candidate’s department or discipline
- have direct knowledge of the candidates’ professional and academic performance.
- not hold an administrative title in an academic unit or at the provost, vice president or president levels.
As Advocate, you may:
- vote on the faculty’s case if from your department/unit.
- provide feedback to the faculty on their CV and Personal Statements.
- suggest external evaluators to be solicited, if you are identified sufficiently early in the dossier assembly process.
- provide a written statement that is included in the faculty’s dossier based on when you’ve been invited to serve in this role, such as before the dossier goes to department review, before APT review, or after PRB review.
- provide additional statement(s) if there is an advocacy meeting.
- present and answer questions at department and APT meetings.
- participate in the advocacy meeting, if meeting occurs.
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