SECTION
800 - HUMAN RESOURCES
803.0906 TENURE
CRITERIA FOR FACULTY
PROCEDURE
A. Tenure
will be recommended only for faculty with the rank of assistant professor,
associate professor, and professor.
B. Up to
three years of probationary credit toward tenure may be awarded when a faculty
member at one of the three professorial ranks is hired in accordance with
Regents' policy.
C. Tenure
may be recommended upon a faculty member's completion of five years of
full-time service. Consideration may be
given for any probationary credit earned toward tenure.
D. Starting
with the 1993-94 academic year, those who attain the rank of Assistant
Professor may be awarded probationary credit toward tenure on the following
basis: If the faculty member had been
at the college for three years, he/she may be awarded two years; if the faculty
member had been at the college for four or more years, he/she may be awarded
three years; if the faculty member has been at the college one or two years,
he/she may be awarded one year. When a
faculty member receives a doctorate, he/she is immediately considered eligible
for promotion to Assistant Professor.
The
maximum time that may be served at the rank of assistant professor or above
without the award of tenure is seven years.
The maximum time that may be served in any combination of full-time
instructional appointments (instructor or professorial ranks) without the award
of tenure is ten years.
E. Tenure
is awarded based upon the following:
1. Faculty member's record of performance
which must include excellence in teaching;
2. Consideration of recommendations by the
faculty member's Peer Review Committee, the Department Chair, Academic Dean,
and Promotion and Tenure Committee; in the case of academic administrators
serving at or above the Department Chair/Coordinator level, the recommendations
will be made by their immediate supervisor to the Promotion and Tenure
Committee. This recommendation will
include a copy of the Peer Review Committee's recommendation;
3. Instructional and institutional needs
of the College, which include program needs, enrollment and fiscal
considerations; and,
4. Other criteria, which include a
consistent performance record over five years (which may include up to three
years of probationary credit).
a. improvement in one's specific
discipline
b. support of other faculty, other
departments, other campuses, and institutional goals
c. active sharing of professional
expertise with the community.
Recommendations
will go from the Promotion and Tenure Committee to the Vice President for
Academic and Student Affairs and/or the President.
*Minimum criteria establish
necessary conditions for submission but do not ensure recommendation of tenure.
Revised 7/96
Revised 11/01:
“Discipline Dean” changed to “Academic Dean”; “Vice President for
Academic Affairs” changed to “Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs”