Tenure & Promotion Procedures- Joint Appointments
B. Joint Appointments
The term “joint appointment” shall apply when an individual holds two or more intra-University faculty appointments. In such an instance, one of the appointments shall be designated as the primary appointment by the dean of the college if the individual’s appointments are associated with educational units in the same college, or by the Provost if the appointments are in different colleges (AR II 1.0.1, Section II-M). The constituent appointments relating to a joint appointment may be processed simultaneously or at different times; however, each appointment should be processed independently and considered on its own merits. An individual’s academic rank, though usually the same, may differ in the constituent appointments. The possibility of tenure applies only to the primary appointment. The procedures for joint appointment of full-time faculty at the various academic ranks, and for promotion of full-time faculty on joint appointment, are the same as those for the regular or special title series, except that a dossier and referral to an Academic Area Advisory Committee are not required for a non-primary appointment in a joint appointment or for a promotion related to such a non-primary appointment.
The documentation required to accompany a department chair’s recommendation on joint appointments to the Dean must include: [1] the candidate’s up-to-date curriculum vitae; [2] letters from at least the tenured faculty of the educational unit where the candidate will have a proposed secondary appointment and from the full-time, tenure-track faculty who have been appointed in that unit for two years; [3] letter from the chair or director of the primary appointment; and [4] letter from the dean of the college that is the primary appointment.