Faculty Rights and Responsibilities
Guidelines
for University Promotion and Tenure Committee Deliberations
Approved
by the Provost, January 2006.
Adopted
by the University Promotion and Tenure Committee beginning
March 14, 2006.
Voting
for Approval of Promotion/Tenure
1.
Approval of promotion and/or tenure requires an affirmative
vote from a majority of committee members present, eligible
to vote on a case, and voting.
2.
Members must be present to vote, and no substitutes
or alternates for committee members are permitted.
3.
All votes for approval of promotion and/or tenure are
by secret ballot. Deliberations of the committee and all statements
made by individual committee members are confidential. The
written statements explaining the basis for the committee's
reversal of earlier recommendations, however, are not confidential.
Administrative
Procedures
1.
At least one week before the committee meets, the provost
sends each Committee member a confidential preliminary ballot
containing the names of all of the candidates up for review
for whom that member has a vote.
•
A “yes” response on this ballot is a vote to approve the
requested promotion and/or tenure without any discussion
of the case.
•
A “no” response on this ballot may be a vote to deny the
promotion and/or tenure, or it may be a vote to delay the
decision until after the committee has discussed the case.
2.
The preliminary ballot is returned to the provost by
the day prior to the meeting of the committee so that the
results of the preliminary balloting may be tabulated and
presented to the committee when it meets.
3.
In addition to the voting members of the University Promotion
and Tenure Committee only two other persons will be present:
a tenured Professor selected by the provost and a tenured
Professor selected by the AAUP-WSU. These Professors
will attend the committee meeting(s), will share the clerical
duties of counting votes, and will be available, as needed,
to interpret the collective bargaining agreement and respond
to procedural questions from committee members.
4.
At the committee meeting, the provost will distribute copies
of the preliminary ballots with the tabulated votes indicated.
•
Those who received a majority of “yes” votes on the preliminary
ballot will be presented as a group to the committee for
a collective approving vote.
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If the motion passes by a majority vote, then all will
be approved by the vote in the preliminary ballot.
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If the motion fails to receive a majority vote, then each
candidate will be discussed and voted on individually
at least once and no more than three times during the
meeting.
•
Those who did not receive a majority of “yes” votes on the
preliminary ballot will be discussed individually and then
voted on at least once and no more than three times during
the meeting.
•
A second vote on a given case
may be requested by any voting committee member at any time
during the meeting. A third vote may be requested after
all cases have been voted on at least once. In the case
of multiple votes, the last vote taken will be recorded
as the committee's official vote.
5.
The normal sequence for consideration of candidates for promotion
and tenure is reflected in the preliminary ballot.
The ballot is arranged in descending order by rank with promotion
only nominations for each rank listed first followed by nominations
for promotion with tenure. Within each category, nominees
appear in alphabetical order by college/school and within
each unit by name of the candidate. The normal order
is summarized below:
1
- ASSOCIATE TO FULL PROFESSOR
(where
tenure is not a consideration)
2
- ASSOCIATE TO FULL PROFESSOR
(where
tenure is a consideration)
3
- ASSISTANT TO ASSOCIATE
(where
tenure is not a consideration)
4
- ASSISTANT TO ASSOCIATE
(where
tenure is a consideration)
5
- SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR TENURE ONLY
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