Ball State University utilizes Faculty Success (formerly Digital Measures) in annual promotion and tenure and merit reviews.  Refer to the Faculty and Professional Personnel Handbook for University guidelines and connect with your department for further details.

Promotion & Tenure

Promotion and Tenure

The review of materials for promotion and tenure begins each fall.  Each unit follows a unique review timeline.  For information related to your unit's timeline, contact your college champion (listed below).

Although some information will be imported from University records, faculty are responsible for adding or importing data and documents related to their teaching, scholarship, and service.

The following video clips demonstrate each step of the process:

  1. Data Entry Cheat Sheet - A guide to populating the 2024 BSU Standard CV Template
  2. Vita Data Entry
  3. Accessing Candidate Workflows
  4. Candidate Submission Steps
  5. Committee Member Responsibilities
  6. Committee Chair/Department Chair Responsibilities

Quick guides (PDF):

Other Helpful Resources:

5 Year Post-Tenure Review

Candidate Responsibilities

As a candidate, you will need to do the following in Faculty Success:

  • Acknowledge receiving and reviewing resources, best practices, available seminars, training, and faculty toolkits that help you meet review criteria 35.1.8.2.1 and 35.1.8.2.2 (part of the candidate submission form and demonstrated in this video).
  • Review and confirm your student evaluations in Faculty Success to ensure accuracy and completeness (under Scheduled Teaching).
  • Upload all syllabi and existing annual peer/chair evaluations in Faculty Success for the last five years (under Scheduled Teaching).
  • Collect existing evaluations from the last five years of salary and merit annual reviews and upload them into the post-tenure workflow (part of the candidate submission form and demonstrated in this video).
  • Enter activities and achievements relating to teaching, scholarship, and service for the last five years into Faculty Success (i.e., your Faculty Success "CV"). Links to help videos and resources are listed below.
  • Provide a written statement of up to 1000 words describing a pattern of achievement in performing duties and obligations.  Once it is launched, there will be a place to upload this statement in the workflow (part of the candidate submission form and demonstrated in this video).

The following video clips may be helpful when entering information into Faculty Success:

  1. Data Entry Cheat Sheet - A guide to populating the 2024 BSU Standard CV Template
  2. Vita Data Entry
  3. Accessing Candidate Workflows

Quick Guides (PDF):

Other Helpful Resources:

2025 Annual Merit Cycle

The merit review process begins each spring and covers the previous calendar year (January 1 to December 31).

Although some information will be imported from University records, faculty are responsible for adding or importing data and documents related to their teaching, scholarship, and service.

The following video clips demonstrate each step of the process:

  1. Annual Activity Report Cheat Sheet - A Video Guide
  2. Annual Merit Workflow Overview
  3. Annual Merit Candidate Submission

Quick guides (PDF):

Zoom Recordings

Office Hours

(Spring 2025)

  • In-Person: Available by appointment | Email the team to schedule a time

Questions?

Each College has a designated point person you can talk with about Faculty Success.  Find yours below!

Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning - Daniel Overbey
Miller College of Business - Allen Truell
College of Communication, Information, and Media - David Hua
College of Fine Arts - Andrew Friedman
College of Health - Larry Judge
College of Sciences and Humanities - Jill Coleman
Teachers College - Shannon Dieringer
Honors College - Emily Rutter

For additional assistance, please email FacultySuccess@bsu.edu.