PROCEDURES FOR PROMOTION RECOMMENDATIONS. Faculty unit members who wish to apply for promotion will submit a written application to their immediate supervisor no later than such date, which shall be no earlier than September 5, as may be specified under institutional promotion and tenure procedures or, in the absence of such institutional procedures, October 5. Such notification will allow the promotion and tenure committees, instituted
PROCEDURES FOR PROMOTION RECOMMENDATIONS. Faculty unit members who wish to apply for promotion will submit a written application to their immediate supervisor no later than such date, which shall be no earlier than September 5, as may be specified under institutional promotion and tenure procedures or, in the absence of such institutional procedures, October 5. Such notification will allow the promotion and tenure committees, instituted under § 13A.4, access to the faculty unit member's personnel file and individualized professional development plans. The application will include documentation to establish performance commensurate with the award of the professorial rank sought as required under Appendix O, or, for faculty unit members not assigned the rank of Associate Professor when first awarded a tenure track contract, to establish performance commensurate with the award of tenure as required under Appendix P. The review of eligibility for promotion will consider only performance in the unit member’s professorial role; hence, faculty unit members with library duties who are entitled to retain professorial rank or whose appointment is split between professorial and librarian ranks will be responsible for producing documentation that their instructional, research and service activities meet institutional standards implementing Board Policy No. 4:38 for professorial ranks. Each institution may stipulate certain desired elements or format for the documentation, which will be made available to faculty unit members in written form. The immediate supervisor, and any other supervisors, including the president, who review the file in order to make independent recommendations, may supplement the material assembled by the faculty with information obtained from other sources, and they may base their recommendations upon such additional information, provided that such additional information is included in the file together with the materials assembled by the faculty unit member. This documentation and the recommendations of the department head (and of the departmental promotion and tenure committee, if any) will be forwarded by the department head to the administrator responsible for the process at the college/ or school level or at the institutional level, whichever is applicable, no later than such date as may be specified under institutional promotion and tenure procedures or, in the absence of such institutional procedures, November 5. If the institution has college or school promotion and tenure commit...
PROCEDURES FOR PROMOTION RECOMMENDATIONS
