Review of Untenured Faculty

Approved March 2005

It is the policy of the College of Commerce to review untenured faculty each year and to provide formal feedback concerning their progress towards achieving tenure. Untenured faculty members prepare dossiers for review by their departmental committees and Department Heads each fall beginning in the second year of service.

The departmental committees and Department Heads are responsible for advising faculty on their progress towards tenure and for preparing formal evaluations of that progress. Prior to the fourth year of service, these reviews and evaluations are forwarded directly to the Dean’s Office and are not reviewed by the College’s Promotion and Tenure Committee or by the University’s Office of Academic Affairs, unless a recommendation is made to terminate a faculty member.

The dossiers of and evaluations for untenured faculty who have completed three or more years of service are reviewed by the College’s Promotion and Tenure Committee. The Committee does not make a separate recommendation concerning the progress or retention of candidates. Instead, the Committee reviews departmental recommendations to ensure proper procedures have been followed and that reasonable consistency is being maintained across departments. The Committee should report any concerns about these matters to the Dean’s Office.

In the fourth year of service, a formal retention recommendation is made by the Dean, based on departmental evaluations, to the Vice-President of Academic Affairs, who reviews the departmental evaluations and the candidate’s file.