Department Review Committee. The full-time probationary and tenured faculty members of each academic department shall elect a Department Review Committee (hereinafter DRC) which shall consist of tenured faculty at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor in the department unless specified differently in the department governance document. In the case of a Lecturer seeking promotion to Senior Lecturer, all Senior Lecturers and tenured faculty at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor in the department will constitute the committee. If the department has fewer than three (3) appropriately qualified faculty members to serve as a DRC, the faculty in consultation with the Xxxx and the promotion candidate shall identify another department or departments in a related discipline to supply the minimum number needed from outside the department. The DRC shall elect a Chair no later than September 15. Chairs, administrators as outlined in Article 2.3, and current applicants for Tenure, Tenure with Promotion, and Promotion may not serve on the DRC.
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