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Article 23: Tenure, Promotion and Selective Increment

23.1 Information for Tenure, Promotion and Selective Increase: Within the categories of teaching, research, administration, service, and other areas of faculty activity, the exact nature of the information considered relevant in the consideration of tenure or promotion or selective increase is to be decided by members of each Department according to a mechanism to be determined by the Joint Faculty Policies Committee.

23.2 Criteria for Tenure, Promotion and Selective Increase: Within the categories of teaching, research, administration, service, and other areas of faculty activity, the minimum and typical criteria employed by the Department Committee in order to make positive recommendations on tenure and promotion and the criteria for selective increment decisions, are to be decided by members of each Department according to a mechanism to be determined by the Joint Faculty Policies Committee. These criteria must recognize the Aims and Objectives of the University and be consistent with the principles of individual variability as outlined in Article 19, Faculty Development Principles.

23.3 Toward Equitable Criteria: It is the responsibility of the Joint Faculty Policies Committee to review departmental tenure, promotion and selective increment criteria when they are established or altered. Departments whose criteria are considered to be inequitable or inconsistent with the principles of Article 19, Faculty Development Principles, will be asked to justify the criteria to the Joint Faculty Policies Committee.

There may be cases in which a Department and the Joint Faculty Policies Committee cannot agree on the compatibility of the Department’s criteria with University policies and practices. In such cases, the Joint Faculty Policies Committee will record their concerns in a written statement copied to the Department, the Dean of the College, the Provost and Vice-President (Academic), the President and the University Appeals Committee and the Grievance Board.

23.4 All faculty members will be informed in writing of the department criteria at the time of initial appointment and they must be informed in writing of any changes to these criteria.

23.5 All recommendations and/or decisions of the Department or College Committees, the President or the University Appeals Committee to the effect that tenure not be granted and/or promotion not be awarded and/or a probationary appointment not be continued, must be provided in writing by the relevant committee, or the President, if requested by the faculty member concerned, listing reasons for the decision and/or recommendation. Upon request by a faculty member, written reasons for selective increase ratings will be provided by the Department Committee and, if appealed, by the College Dean. Copies of all such letters are placed in the individual member’s personal file.

23.6 Criteria for promotion, renewable and continuing appointments and selective increase are reviewed from time to time by the Standing Committee on Librarians’ Policies, and are set forth in the “Terms and Conditions of Employment for Professional Librarians”, Section B.6.3.