I.
Criteria for Tenure and Promotion
II.
Faculty Files
III.
Faculty Evaluations
IV.
Official SAC Procedures
V.
The Committee on Tenure and Promotion
INTRODUCTION:
This handbook
is an attempt to gather together in a single place all the
available information relating to procedures for tenure and
promotion. Some of these procedures are encoded in the Statutes
of the Faculty, some
are described in the Faculty Information Manual, and many
are circulated less widely, i.e., among chairs or between
the chairs and the Student Advisory Committees. They have
been compiled here to achieve several goals:
a.To respond
to the need in the community for a clearer, more concise description
of policies and procedures related to tenure and promotion.
b.To ensure
that cases for tenure and/or promotion at all levels be considered
in as timely and orderly a manner as possible.
c.To promote
a uniformity of application of procedures among different
departments and from year to year.
The handbook
is organized according to the timetable of events facing a
junior faculty member as his or her performance is documented
periodically. Special attention is given to the tenure review
and to the review preceding a recommendation for promotion
to Full Professor. At each stage, procedures mandated by the
Statutes of the Faculty are indented. Other College
procedures, either voted by the Faculty Assembly or arising
from customary practices, are included in regular type. Where
appropriate, special attention is called to the responsibilities
of the candidate, the responsibilities of the senior members
of the candidate's department, the responsibilities of that
department's Chair, and the responsibilities of the Committee
on Tenure and Promotion.
It is
hoped that this handbook will form the basis for an ongoing
conversation about the appropriateness of these procedures,
offering the opportunity for modification as the need becomes
apparent.
