Common use of Progress Toward Tenure Clause in Contracts

Progress Toward Tenure. Midterm Review Assessing Progress Toward Tenure. A special midterm review shall be conducted for faculty members during the third year of the tenure probationary period. The purpose of this appraisal shall be to assess the faculty member's progress toward meeting the criteria for tenure and to provide assessments, suggestions, and guidance to assist the faculty member in fulfilling the University's tenure criteria. (a) Faculty members of each department shall develop a procedure for conducting the review. This procedure must: (1) Identify how the tenured faculty members of the department will be involved in the appraisal and how the faculty member will be provided feedback regarding the analysis of progress toward tenure; and (2) Include an evaluation by the department chair and the xxxx of the faculty member's progress toward meeting the criteria for tenure. (b) The faculty member under review shall compile an appraisal dossier containing the same kind of information as would be in a tenure dossier but without letters of evaluation. The department chair shall provide to the faculty member the following materials for inclusion in the dossier: (1) Annual Assigned Activity, including the proportions of the faculty member's assignments, reported on the annual activities report that have been devoted to teaching, scholarship and service; (2) Tenure Criteria for the University and the department's written discipline-specific clarifications of those criteria; (3) Peer evaluations; and (4) The faculty member's Annual Evaluations. (c) Tenured faculty members of the appropriate department shall review the appraisal dossier and meet with the department chair to assess whether the faculty member under review is making satisfactory progress toward tenure, according to the kinds of expectations and indications of success that are appropriate at this point in the tenure probationary period. (d) No later than the end of the semester, the results of the review shall be shared with the faculty member. These results shall include any recommendations about how the faculty member might improve his/her performance and tenure dossier and what assistance might be available in the department, college, and University to address candidate needs and improve performance. Upon request, the faculty member shall be provided the opportunity to meet with the chair and/or the xxxx to discuss the review. (e) The appraisal process shall be confidential to the extent permitted by law and internal to the department and the college office. Consequently, the appraisal shall not be placed in the faculty member's evaluation file and shall not be included in the faculty member's subsequent tenure dossier.

Progress Toward Tenure. Midterm Review Assessing Progress Toward Tenure. A special midterm review shall be conducted for faculty members during the third year of the tenure probationary period. The purpose of this appraisal shall be to assess the faculty member's progress toward meeting the criteria for tenure and to provide assessments, suggestions, and guidance to assist the faculty member in fulfilling the University's tenure criteriaChair’s Appraisal. (a) Faculty members of each department shall develop a procedure for conducting the review. This procedure must: (1) Identify how the tenured Each tenure-earning faculty members member shall annually be apprised in writing of the department will be involved in the appraisal and how the faculty member will be provided feedback regarding the analysis of member’s progress toward tenure; andtenure by his/her chair. The xxxx shall also review and approve the tenure appraisal. (2) Include an evaluation by the department chair and the xxxx The tenure appraisal shall be included as a separate component of the annual evaluation and is intended to provide assistance and counseling to the faculty member's progress toward meeting the criteria for member to help him/her to achieve tenure. (b3) The chair’s appraisal shall specify whether the faculty member is making appropriate and satisfactory progress toward achieving tenure according to the department’s interpretations/clarifications of the University’s tenure criteria. The appraisal shall mention any deficiency in the faculty member’s performance that the chair believes may adversely affect the faculty member’s ability to achieve tenure. (4) If the appraisal identifies a deficiency in the faculty member’s performance or in the faculty member’s rate of progress, the chair shall make timely relevant recommendation(s) for improvement. (5) The faculty member under review shall compile may request, in writing, a meeting with an administrator at the next higher level to discuss concerns regarding the tenure appraisal dossier containing that were not resolved in previous discussions with the same kind of information as would be in a tenure dossier but without letters of evaluation. The department chair shall provide to the faculty member the following materials for inclusion in the dossier: (1) Annual Assigned Activity, including the proportions of the faculty member's assignments, reported on the annual activities report that have been devoted to teaching, scholarship and service; (2) Tenure Criteria for the University and the department's written discipline-specific clarifications of those criteria; (3) Peer evaluations; and (4) The faculty member's Annual Evaluationsevaluator. (c6) Tenured faculty members of The department chair’s appraisals are not binding upon the appropriate department shall review the appraisal dossier and meet with University. However, if the department chair to assess whether the faculty member under review is making chair’s tenure appraisals indicate appropriate and satisfactory progress toward tenure, according or fail to the kinds of expectations and indications of success that are appropriate at this point in the tenure probationary period. (d) No later than the end of the semester, the results of the review shall be shared with the faculty member. These results shall include any recommendations about how the faculty member might improve his/her performance and tenure dossier and what assistance might be available in the department, college, and University to address candidate needs and improve performance. Upon request, the faculty member shall be provided the opportunity to meet with the chair and/or the xxxx to discuss the review. (e) The appraisal process shall be confidential to the extent permitted by law and internal to the department and the college office. Consequently, the appraisal shall not be placed timely identify either a deficiency in the faculty member's evaluation file and shall not be included ’s performance or in the faculty member's subsequent ’s rate of progress, and the chair or xxxx does not recommend the faculty member for tenure, the President or designee shall extend the tenure-earning period sufficiently to provide the faculty member with a reasonable opportunity to meet the criteria for tenure. This provision shall not apply when the faculty member is denied tenure dossierfor reason(s) independent of the chair’s or xxxx’x negative recommendation.

Progress Toward Tenure. Midterm Review Assessing Progress Toward Tenure. A special midterm review shall be conducted for faculty members during the third (3rd) year of the tenure probationary period. The purpose of this appraisal shall be to assess the faculty member's progress toward meeting the criteria for tenure and to provide assessments, suggestions, and guidance to assist the faculty member in fulfilling the University's tenure criteria. (a) Faculty members of each department shall develop a procedure for conducting the review. This procedure must: (1) Identify how the tenured faculty members of the department will be involved in the appraisal and how the faculty member will be provided feedback regarding the analysis of progress toward tenure; and (2) Include an evaluation by the department chair and the xxxx of the faculty member's progress toward meeting the criteria for tenure. (b) The faculty member under review shall compile an appraisal dossier containing the same kind of information as would be in a tenure dossier but without letters of evaluation. The department chair shall provide to the faculty member the following materials for inclusion in the dossier: (1) Annual Assigned Activity, including the proportions of the faculty member's assignments, reported on the annual activities report that have been devoted to teaching, scholarship and service; (2) Tenure Criteria for the University and the department's written discipline-discipline- specific clarifications of those criteria; (3) Peer evaluations; and (4) The faculty member's Annual Evaluations. (c) Tenured faculty members of the appropriate department shall review the appraisal dossier and meet with the department chair to assess whether the faculty member under review is making satisfactory progress toward tenure, according to the kinds of expectations and indications of success that are appropriate at this point in the tenure probationary period. (d) No later than the end of the semester, the results of the review shall be shared with the faculty member. These results shall include any recommendations about how the faculty member might improve his/her performance and tenure dossier and what assistance might be available in the department, college, and University to address candidate needs and improve performance. Upon request, the faculty member shall be provided the opportunity to meet with the chair and/or the xxxx to discuss the review. (e) The appraisal process shall be confidential to the extent permitted by law and internal to the department and the college office. Consequently, the appraisal shall not be placed in the faculty member's evaluation file and shall not be included in the faculty member's subsequent tenure dossier.