What should be the most important criteria for appointment to the career steps in universities? What are the conditions deserve to progress on the career steps? What are the conditions of advancement in your country? Do you think these criteria are objective and correct criteria for academic advancement? Is should common criteria develop all over the world?
Systems and levels are very different around the world. The criteria cannot be objective, but are grown products of the many countries academic cultures. As with every profession, it is very important to 'socialize' early with the 'academic system'. Material equivalence evaluations, mostly done by education ministries,
regulate the formal access to career positions, but this does not reflect the many unwritten practices. To sum it up: something like a world academic culture is still in its infancy, because academia is everywhere closely tied to a political state.
Dear Stephen I. Ternyik
Thank you very much for sharing your valuable information. I'm particularly curious. For example, what are the criteria in your country? Whenever and under what conditions an academic staff who, newly began its studies, they can become assistant professor, associate professor, or professor? What are the criteria in other countries all over the world?
We can generally infer that very early 'academic socialization' is essential for 'normal career development'; that empirical principle does not exclude a minority of extraordinary callings. Getting early inolved in research and teaching by the supervision of leading authorities makes for the advancement of an academic career; getting selected for scholarships and fellowships, professional memberships, knowledge of the political landscape and publishing skills belong to the competitive advantage of the aspiring student, who wants to succeed in a respective academic culture.
Generally, the main indicators of research quality are gross numbers of publications, publication in journals deemed to be ranked highly, publication by commercial publishers, high levels of publication citation, international recognition, competitive grants, and completed supervisions of research degrees. While these are used to varying extents as indicators of research quality, their relevance must be considered in light of discipline-specific considerations.
I believe that whatever the country, academic promotions should be tied to the under-listed criteria.
1. Sustained performance – performing at the standard expected for the bottom quartile of the level above the current level of appointment
2. Superior performance– performing at the standard expected at the midpoint of the level above the current level of appointment
3. Outstanding performance – performing at the standard expected between the midpoint and the top quartile of the level above the current level of appointment
4. Outstanding Plus performance – performing at the standard expected of the top quartile of the level above the current level of appointment
5. Not Sustained performance – performing no higher than at the current level of appointment
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