Applying Prior Years of Experience Toward Promotion Sample Clauses

Applying Prior Years of Experience Toward Promotion. An employee who has been employed full time in a tenured or tenure-track position at a regionally accredited baccalaureate degree-granting institution of higher education (or equivalent from an international accrediting body) may elect to have counted toward promotion to Associate Professor one year or two consecutive years of full-time employment of the employee's choice if the year(s) of previous employment occurred within the five years imme­diately prior to one's initial appointment to a position at Western Illinois University. Faculty who count previous years of employment toward pro­motion may have their Scholarly/Professional Activities record during that same one year or two years considered as part of their performance. Employees should discuss their interest in applying prior years of experi­ence toward promotion with their department chair prior to initiating the application process. Promotion applicants who elect to count previous years of employ­ment toward promotion may do so with the understanding that only the Scholarly/Professional Activities record is entered into the promotion and retention portfolios. The Scholarly/Professional Activities record included in the promotion portfolio will be those activities that occurred during the specified period of time identified in the Academic Vice President's letter approving the faculty member's request to count previous years of employment toward promotion. An employee applying prior years of experience toward promotion must simultaneously apply those same prior years of experience toward reten­tion and tenure. An employee who is eligible for applying prior year(s) of employment toward promotion must notify the Academic Vice President in writing by September 1 of the employee's PY2.