Faculty Appointments & Review — Appendix A: Points To Be Determined by Collegiate Procedures

The following points must be covered by the Collegiate Procedures (as approved by the Provost) to satisfy a requirement of or to provide a variation from a provision of the University Procedures:

  • General Principles: how qualified faculty members from outside the department will be identified to serve on the DCG, if there are fewer than four faculty members in the department who are qualified to serve on the DCG;
  • General Principles: who will perform the functions assigned in these Procedures to the DEO, if they will not be performed by an individual who holds that title;
  • General Principles: in nondepartmentalized colleges, what the role of department-like units and their administrative officers, if any, will be;
  • General Principles: how and when a candidate for whom it is not the year of required tenure review will notify the department and/or college of his or her interest in being reviewed for tenure and/or promotion;
  • I.B.(1) the date substantive material for the promotion dossier will be due from the candidate, if before September 1;
  • I.B.(3)(f) any supplementary material to be included in the dossier in addition to the required minimum described in these Procedures;
  • I.C. who shall perform the internal peer evaluations of teaching, scholarship, and service;
  • I.D.(1)–(4) details about the process of peer observation of teaching;
  • I.E.(2)(a) when the process of selection of external reviewers will begin;
  • I.E.(2)(b) how many external reviewers will be asked to provide assessments of the candidate’s scholarship, and what sample of the candidate’s scholarship each will review;
  • I.E.(2)(d) the process by which the faculty members assigned to perform internal peer review of the candidate’s scholarship will go about adding to the list of proposed external reviewers;
  • I.E.(2)(g) the process by which the DEO will go about selecting the final list of external reviewers;
  • I.G.(2) the period of time allowed the candidate to review the internal peer evaluations of teaching, scholarship, and service for errors (normally five to ten working days);
  • I.H.(4) details of the DCG’s voting procedure, and how the DCG determines which of its members will prepare the summary report of its discussion, document the final vote, and enter that information into the Promotion Record;
  • I.H.(6) the period of time allowed the candidate to submit in writing to the DEO any corrections of factual errors regarding the candidate’s record in the DCG’s report (normally five to ten working days);
  • I.J.(3) the period of time allowed the candidate to submit a response after receipt of a DEO’s negative recommendation to the Dean (normally five to ten working days)