Confidentiality of Personnel Deliberations
Composition of Departmental Personnel Committees (Probationary and Temporary Appointment, Retention, Tenure, and Promotion, and Evaluation of Temporary, Probationary and Tenured Faculty)
Composition of the Dean's Office Personnel Committees
One personnel committee is elected annually.
The probationary and tenured faculty members of the college shall elect a peer review committee(s) of tenured faculty members. When there are insufficient eligible members to serve on the peer committee, the college shall elect members from a related academic discipline(s).
(The Committee, as a whole, must take responsibility for the following tasks: Temporary Appointment; Retention; Range Elevation; and Evaluation of Temporary Faculty. It is required that each unit indicate below which Committee is responsible for each of these tasks.)
Committee Titles and Responsibilities | Number of Members (at least 3; all tenured) (Indicate if must be (full) professor rank) | Number of Alternates (1 or more; all tenured) (Indicate if must be (full) professor rank) |
|---|---|---|
Temporary Faculty Committee Conducts all evaluations associated with temporary faculty. It recommends policies and procedures for the evaluation of temporary faculty and faculty for inclusion in the temporary faculty pool. | 5 | 1 |
*For Tenure Track Appointments (Search) Committees, one probationary faculty may serve.
Eligibility for Committee Service and Balloting
Recruitment of Probationary Faculty
Appointment of Probationary Faculty
Personnel Action Files
Individualized Professional Plans
Eligibility for Tenure and Promotion
Evaluation of Permanent Instructional Faculty
Committee Procedures
Review of Faculty Holding Joint Appointments and of Faculty Active in Interdisciplinary Programs
Student Consultation in Academic Personnel Processes
Additional:
The Guidelines are provided below. Student opinion surveys are administered in all sections of NSS 1001.
Oral Testimony
Role of Department/Division/School Chair or Director
Additional:
The Guidelines are provided below. Student opinion surveys are administered in all sections of NSS 1001. For NSS prefix courses, the Associate Dean is considered to be the Department Chair.
Appointment of Temporary Faculty
Consideration for Three-Year Appointments
Evaluation of Temporary Faculty
Additional:
As part of the supplemental file, a temporary faculty member can demonstrate currency in the field by providing detailed course syllabi, examinations, assignments, and other materials relevant to the temporary faculty assignment. Other examples of currency in the field may include activities of scholarship relevant to the temporary assignment, such as posters or presentations at professional conferences; publications in peer-reviewed journals; published book or film reviews; films and videos; attendance and participation in workshops, panels, and discussion forums; and other creative or scholarly activities that reference, synthesize, and/or critically evaluate current and salient issues in one of teh fields housed in a Department in the College of NSS or the scholarship of teaching and learning in that field.