Appointments Committee and Procedures for All Appointments Other Than Term Adjunct Appointments. 25.5.1 An Appointments Committee shall be established in each Unit, excluding Units in the School of Medicine in which the majority of Members of the Academic Staff are excluded from the Bargaining Unit, by no later than May 1 in each year as follows:
(a) The Appointments Committee may be the standing Renewal, Tenure/Continuing Appointment and Promotion (RTP/RCP) Committee as established by Article 30 or Article 31, or may be constituted separately by a separate election. In either case, up to two (2) student representatives (which in this context shall include residents in the Faculty of Health Sciences) may be members of the Appointments Committee. The Appointments Committee shall be chaired by the Unit Head or his/her respective delegate. The Head of a Unit that is too small to form a representative committee (fewer than three (3) Members) should invite representatives from related Units to serve as members;
(b) When a search is to be conducted to fill a joint appointment, the Appointments Committee shall be constituted in accordance with Article 25.5.1(a), with the exception that the elected Members shall be elected in equal numbers from among and by the Members in the several Units that will jointly host the appointment. The Chair of the Committee shall be a Unit Head (or delegate) of one of these Units;
(c) When a search is to be conducted to fill a joint appointment to be hosted by an identified primary Unit and another Unit, the identity of which depends on the disciplinary expertise of the successful candidate, a composite Appointments Committee shall be constituted as follows: three elected Members shall be drawn from the primary Unit; an additional Member shall be elected by each of the potential partner Units. The Unit Head (or delegate) of the primary Unit shall serve as Chair of the Committee;
(d) When a search is to be conducted to fill an interdisciplinary appointment (such as an appointment that is to be connected with an established interdisciplinary research group) and the eventual appointee’s home Unit cannot be identified at the time, the members of a composite Appointments Committee shall be elected by and from among the Members of the interdisciplinary group. An additional member may be elected to the Committee by each of the Units that are most likely to host the appointment. The Committee shall elect its own Chair;
(e) Exceptions to Appointments Committee structures shall be made only with the approval of the JCAA; and
(f) For Unit...
