Date February 14, 2005
Subject: FACULTY REGULATIONS - Chapter V - Section 4
APPOINTMENTS, RETENTION, PROMOTION, AND TENURE
SECTION 4. UNIVERSITY RPT STANDARDS COMMITTEE
A. Membership. See Faculty Regulations, Chapter III, Section 4.A.(6).
B. Duties: The University RPT Standards Committee shall develop and implement procedures with which it will review and approve department and/or college retention/promotion/tenure criteria, and the application of those criteria to RPT decisions within a department or college with due concern to the unique characteristics or requirements of the discipline and with the objective of improving the stature of the university. Such reviews of RPT criteria will be done in conjunction with the faculty and administrators of the department/college being reviewed. Any department or college may be reviewed at the initiative of the committee. Requests for review may be made in the fall semester to the committee by the senior vice president for academic affairs or the senior vice president for health sciences, or the University Promotion and Tenure Advisory Committee, or by the Graduate Council as well as by deans, department chairpersons, or individual faculty members. The committee shall use its judgment and discretion in formulating responses to such requests. The committee shall annually report on its reviews to the Academic Senate and to the University Promotion and Tenure Advisory Committee.
Approved: Academic Senate 1/10/05
Approved: Board of Trustees 2/14/05
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