Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost
Promotion and Tenure:
Administrative Procedures for Implementing the Regents Policy on Faculty Tenure
In addition to the Regents Policy on Faculty Tenure, candidates for promotion and/or tenure are governed by a new set of administrative procedures described below. These procedures apply to probationary faculty and to tenured associate professors in their promotion to the rank of professor.
Download PDF: Procedures for Reviewing Candidates for Tenure and/or Promotion: Tenure-Track and Tenured Faculty (2007)
In October 2007, the Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee of the Faculty Senate and the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost jointly approved a new administrative document entitled: Procedures for Reviewing Candidates for Tenure and/or Promotion: Tenure-Track and Tenured Faculty. This document: “contains procedural rules for the consideration of candidates for tenure and promotion. It is intended also to provide a convenient guide for unit heads, tenured faculty members, and candidates, to assist in understanding and organizing the tenure-granting and promotion process.” The new Procedures document addresses key issues concerning the annual review of probationary faculty, concerning the decisions concerning tenure and promotion to the rank of associate professor, and concerning promotion to the rank of professor. It is intended to replace the 1997 document “Procedures for Reviewing the Performance of Tenure-Track Probationary Faculty.” The old Procedures concentrated on the review of probationary faculty with little attention to the promotion from the rank of associate professor to professor.
For candidates for tenure and/or promotion in the academic year 2007-2008, the 1997 Procedures for Reviewing the Performance of Tenure-Track Probationary Faculty were used because the promotion and/or tenure processes had begun before the new procedures were approved. For candidates for tenure and/or promotion in the academic year 2008-2009 and beyond, the 2007 Procedures for Reviewing Candidates for Tenure and/or Promotion: Tenure-Track and Tenured Faculty are in effect.
Annual reviews of probationary faculty on the Twin Cities campus in 2007-2008 were conducted with the 2007 “Procedures for Reviewing Candidates for Tenure and/or Promotion: Tenure-Track and Tenured Faculty,” as described in letters to chairs and heads of units in fall, 2007.