Guidelines for Faculty Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure

1. Introduction
2. Appointments
3. Regular Academic Appointments
4. Research Appointments
5. Clinical Appointments
6. Other Titles and Appointments (Lecturer, Affiliate, Visiting Adjunct, Joint)
7. Voting Faculty
8. Membership in the Graduate Faculty
9. Procedures for Initial Appointment of Faculty and Re-appointment of Former Faculty
• Checklist for Appointment and Re-appointment Requests
• Permission to Recruit Sample Letter
• Search Committee for New Appointments
• Recruitment
• Equal Employment Office Advertising Requirements
• Sample Offer Letter with Terms of Appointment
• Provost’s Memo re: Appointment of Non-Citizens
10. Evidence for Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure
    1. General Considerations
    2. University Handbook, Vol. II, Ch. 24, Section 24-57 and Footnote
    3. Evidence Demonstrating Qualifications
       1. Scholarship
       2. Teaching
       3. Administration and/or University Service
       4. Professional and Community Service
       5. Personal Qualities
       6. University Handbook, Vol. II, Ch. 24, Section 24- 33

11. Procedures for Promotion and/or Award of Tenure
• Promotion Time Schedule. Mandatory Promotion: September 25 to Office of the Dean Non-Mandatory Promotion: December 1 to Office of the Dean
• Promotion Procedure
• Tenure Policy
• Eligibility for Tenure
• Awarding of Tenure
• Tenure Procedure
• Checklist for Promotion/Tenure Requests
• Chair’s Request for Letters of Assessment (Sample Letters)
• Letter of Assessment (Sample Letter)
• Candidate’s Letter to Chair (Sample Letter)
• Chair’s Letter of Recommendation (Sample Letter)
12. Procedural Safeguards and Evidence for Promotion, Merit-Based Salary and Tenure
    Considerations

Appendices

1. Curriculum Vitae (Sample)
   • Tables of Publications, Teaching, and Grant Activity
2. Faculty Teaching Portfolio
3. Peer Teaching Evaluation Review Committee (PTERC)
   • Sample PTERC Evaluation Report
   • Peer Evaluation Forms
4. Provost’s Letter Regarding Letters of Evaluation and Procedures
5. Vice Provost’s Letter Regarding Promotion Procedure
6. Procedural Guide for the Committee on Appointment, Promotion, & Tenure
7. Guidelines Governing Membership on the APT Committee
8. Special Notes: Resignations, Renewal and Non-Renewal of Appointments, Salary Increases
9. University Handbook, Vol. II, Chapter 24
10. University Handbook, Vol. II, Chapter 25