Tenure & Promotion Procedures- Reporting Procedures in the Dossier
[12] Reporting Procedures in the Dossier
It is a matter of fairness that candidates considered for (re)appointment, promotion, and tenure know what procedures are being used to reach that decision. The Governing Regulations (GR VII.A.6.c) now state:
“Jointly with the department chair, the department faculty shall establish procedures to be used within the department concerning recommendations on faculty appointments, promotions, reappointments, terminal appointments, post-retirement appointments, and the granting of tenure and decisions not to reappoint”
The dossier must contain a copy of the established procedures used at the department, and the college level, in the appointment, promotion and/or tenure process including a notation as to the date that the faculty together with the department chair formally acted to establish the described procedures. Reappointments, terminal reappointments, and decisions not to reappoint do not require a dossier, but a description of the department-level reappointment process must be on file in the department. The purpose, once again, is to demystify the process. A good university, rendering tough-minded, qualitative judgments, has no need to cloak its procedures for arriving at those judgments.