Mentoring of students cuts across all areas of the faculty role – teaching, research, and service. Among service activities, mentoring of students is one of the most important areas of faculty service. Review committees are encouraged to recognize and reward faculty who mentor students in research, international work, service learning, entrepreneurial and innovation activities, and work-related experiential learning.

Mentoring of faculty colleagues should be considered important service that promotes faculty advancement.

Community engagement is a significant part of the University's mission and commitment to contributing to the well-being of our local, state, and global communities. Community engagement is defined as the application of a faculty member's professional skills to engage with the external community in a manner that both assists the community and is consistent with fulfillment of the University's mission. Community engagement in religious, political, or social organizations (although meritorious in itself) is not relevant to the faculty member's professional area. Examples of community engagement activities to be evaluated include participation in University outreach programs, teaching noncredit courses, workshops, projects, and colloquia in the faculty member's expertise, speaking engagements, both reimbursed and unreimbursed consulting activities, and other ways the faculty member uses his or her professional knowledge for service.

Consistent with the University's commitment to equity and inclusive excellence, faculty work that contributes to the diversity of learners and scholars at the University and enhances our environment of equity and inclusion is highly valued and should be recognized and rewarded in the review process.

Service to the discipline is exemplified by service to scholarly or professional societies, journal editorships, peer review activities for scholarly journals, scholarly books and texts, and external funding agencies, and other ways of contributing to the advancement of the discipline or appropriate interdisciplinary fields other than in areas relevant to teaching and research.
    Service to scholarly or professional societies may include holding of office, serving on boards, chairing symposia and special sessions at conferences, editing proceedings, reading non-research papers, being instrumental in bringing a professional group to the local community and serving on the local arrangements committee, developing a teleconference, and any other ways in which the faculty member is active within the professional society. It is the responsibility of the chair to evaluate the quality of the work done for the professional society by the faculty member and the stature of the professional society itself and its relevance to the mission of the University.

Departmental, college, and University service also includes special service assignments, sponsorship of student activities, cooperation with the Office of Development in outreach to alumni and securing external funding for the University, service on departmental, college and University committees and task forces, cooperation with the Office of Admissions in recruitment of students to the University, and other service activities.