Faculty Recommendations for Tenure Clause Samples

Faculty Recommendations for Tenure a. General Provisions Each department in the Schools/Colleges of Business Administration; Engineering; Fine, Performing, and Communication Arts; Liberal Arts and Sciences; Medicine; Pharmacy and Health Sciences; each of the Schools/Colleges of Education; Law; Nursing; Social Work; the School of Library and Information Science shall delineate, as far as practical and in a manner reflecting the particular mission and diverse characteristics of the unit, those factors that will be considered in the evaluation of the candidate’s qualifications with respect to the criteria in Section C of this Article and to those department and School/College factors that may have a bearing on the tenure recommendations. The factors shall distinguish among teaching, scholarship and service. However, such factors are not to be interpreted as standards. Department and School/College factors statements must receive the approval of the ▇▇▇▇/director of the School/College prior to implementation. Applicants may submit evidence of scholarly achievement, teaching excellence, and service that has not been specifically listed under the factors. Similarly promotion and tenure committees and administrators may also consider evidence of scholarly achievement, teaching, and service that has not been specifically listed under the factors. No later than February 15 of a given year the President or their designee may request that a unit review its factors statement, and by no later than March 31 of that year the unit shall either reaffirm its current factors statement or submit a revised factors statement. The reaffirmed or revised statement must receive the approval of the ▇▇▇▇/director of the School/College prior to implementation. If the ▇▇▇▇/director and the unit are unable to agree upon a factors statement, the President or their designee shall appoint a committee of bargaining-unit members, using the procedures described in Article XXX, which shall advise the ▇▇▇▇/director on the matter by September 15. The ▇▇▇▇/director shall then develop the factors statement by September 30. Such a factors statement shall be in effect for the following academic year. The previous factors statement shall remain in effect prior to formal implementation of newly developed factors. If, for whatever reason, a factors statement has not yet been implemented, tenure applications from that unit shall be considered under the tenure criteria as specified in Section C of this Article without reference to specifi...