Board of Trustee Policies 5112 and 5113 provide that peer review is a required element in the process of rank promotion and tenure. This will be carried out by the following process, which involves an ad hoc peer review committee for each candidate and a standing Rank Promotion and Tenure Committee.

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A. Faculty Member

The faculty member initiates the application when he/she believes the minimum standards for the Educational Criteria listed in Board Policies 5112 and 5113 have been met. The faculty member informs the Vice President for Academic Affairs in writing by September 30 of intent to apply for tenure and/or promotion. The candidate assembles materials of support, informs his/her dean of the intention, and submits materials to the Vice President for Academic Affairs by October 31. The Vice President for Academic Affairs will then forward all portfolios to the Chair of the Rank Promotion and Tenure Committee.

B. Rank Promotion and Tenure Committee

This committee will have eight members, two members from the School of Professional Studies, two members from the School of Education and Graduate Studies, and four members from the School of Arts and Sciences, elected for alternating two-year terms. The PSC Faculty Senate will elect all members. Each member must be tenured at PSC, and each member must hold a minimum rank of associate professor. Deans shall not serve on the Rank Promotion and Tenure Committee. When fewer than allotted number of faculty from a given School qualify for membership, that School shall seek an exception to the committee membership rule. The PSC Faculty Senate should then qualify sufficient membership through a combination of rank, tenure, and judgment.

The Rank Promotion and Tenure Committee will be a standing faculty committee, and all members will be elected for two-year terms. The committee will elect a chairperson from within its members each year.

The Rank Promotion and Tenure Committee will receive candidate supportive materials, set up peer review committees, receive the recommendations of the peer review committees, and, after reviewing the evidence for promotion and/or tenure, forward their recommendation to the Vice President for Academic Affairs by March 15.

C. Peer Review Committee

By November 7, the Rank Promotion and Tenure Committee will give the candidate the names of four members of the candidate's department school who are full-time, tenure-track personnel, who have at least one year of service at PSC. First choice for this list should come from the department, but if numbers are not sufficient, then second choice should be from the school . The candidate will select three from the four names submitted and inform the Rank Promotion and Tenure Committee of the decision by November 14. If a three-member committee is still not formed based on the above criteria, the Rank Promotion and Tenure Committee will use its best judgment to generate sufficient names to serve on the person's peer review committee.

Deans and persons on the Rank Promotion and Tenure Committee shall not serve on the peer review committees.

The peer review committee analyzes materials and makes a written recommendation. The committee sends the candidate's portfolio and its recommendation to the Rank Promotion and Tenure Committee. The senior (by years of service to PSC) faculty member of a peer review committee will be the chairperson, the chairperson shall see that the other two committee members have access to the candidate's materials. Considering input from all three members, one committee member must draft a recommendation letter to the Rank Promotion and Tenure Committee. If agreement is reached on the recommendation, this letter should bear all three members' signatures. In other cases separate letters must be submitted to the Rank Promotion and Tenure Committee. Any or all letters must be submitted by February 1.

Chronological Deadlines for Rank Tenure and Promotion Process

 

September 30: Faculty candidate notifies appropriate Dean and VPAA

September 30: Schools elect Rank Promotion and Tenure Committee members

October 15: Faculty Senate Chair convenes the Rank Tenure and Promotion Committee

October 15: Rank Promotion and Tenure Committee chair identified

October 31: Candidate submits material to the VPAA

October 31: VPAA submits materials to Rank Tenure and Promotion Committee

November 7: Rank Tenure Promotion committee identifies four names for Peer Review and forwards names to faculty candidate

November 14: Faculty candidate notifies chair of Rank Tenure and Promotion Committee of three members selected

February 1: Peer Review Committee forwards recommendation(s) to chair of Rank Tenure and Promotion Committee

March 15: Rank Tenure and Promotion forwards recommendation to VPAA

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