Duke University, Department of Physics
Chair’s Web Page

This page contain information that should be useful for faculty in the department with regards to support, promotion, teaching, the administration, and planning.

Faculty Support

All faculty are encouraged to approach the chair for financial support for special project, matching money for grants, and bridge money between grants. Support is automatically earmarked for the following two areas, effective until further notice:

Meeting Support: Up to $500 per fiscal year (July 1 – June 30) will be provided for a regular-rank faculty member to attend a meeting that cannot be supported by a grant. Examples include: attending an organizational meeting whose sole purpose to organize a scientific meeting and the organizational meeting has not scientific component that could justify grant expenditures; attending a funding workshop that has a high probability of leading toward future externally-funded research; attending a workshop in a new area of research that is not yet funded. Please see the Departmental Administrative Manager to approve any expenses before you attend a meeting.

Sabbatical Support: Any faculty member on sabbatical can request funds of $2,000 per semester (July 1 – December 31 or January 1 – June 30) for support of the sabbatical project. Allowable expenses include: travel and living expenses at a place of research away from Duke, and attending a conference or workshop related to your sabbatical project. Funds cannot be spent to support students or post-docs in your group. Please see the Departmental Administrative Manager to approve any expenses before they are incurred.

Faculty research and travel is also supported by the Arts & Sciences Committee on Faculty Research. You can obtain up to $1,000 per year for travel to conferences where you are giving a presentation, up to $5,000 per year if you are organizing a conference at Duke, and up to $5,000 per year for new research initiatives.

Faculty Promotion

The official guide for Advancement, Promotion, and Tenure is contained in the handbook on the Provost’s web site. Strict adherence to the procedures and policies in this handbook is imperative, both for candidates and for review committees.

The deadlines for submitting the required review materials to the Department are (effective March 7, 2008):

For reviews involving tenured faculty	Date candidate's materials due to the Department
Promotion to Assoc. Prof. with tenure (academic-year review) complete dossier due to the Dean by December 1	June 15
Promotion to Assoc. Prof. with tenure (calendar-year review) complete dossier due to the Dean by September 15	April 1
Promotion to Full Professor complete dossier due to the Dean by November 1	May 15
For all regular-rank reviews not involving tenure (POP, Research Prof., Lecturer, reappointment of tenure-track Asst. Prof.)	Date candidate's materials due to the Department
Appointment ends June 30 complete dossier due to the Dean by March 1	September 15
Appointment ends July 31 complete dossier due to the Dean by April 1	October 15
Appointment ends August 31 complete dossier due to the Dean by May 1	November 15
Appointment ends December 31 complete dossier due to the Dean by September 1	March 15

As an aid to promotion candidates, an example of materials prepared by D. Gauthier for promotion to Associate and Full Professor are provided. Please note that these materials are very old and the chair and promotion committee should be consulted for updated standards and materials.

Teaching

Opting in to on-line publication of student course evaluations for your course

Instructions: You can see your evaluations and make your opt-in selection here. Once there click on 'Instructors' in the light blue box to the right. You will them be asked to enter your NetID and password. (You should already be in the system. If not, please contact the Associate Chair for Teaching.) You will be taken to your evaluation page. This will display your choices for the opt-in process, a link to the course(s) reports for the latest term we have evaluations for you and (lower down on the page) reports for your department and Trinity college for your reference. On the left you will see a list of terms.