Senate
(Proposed amendment to
Senate Document SD 88-13)
Note: Proposed amendment is in bold.
PROCEDURES FOR PROMOTION AND TENURE
IPFW and its autonomous academic units shall establish, within the timeframes and by means of criteria established in other documents, procedures for the evaluation of faculty for promotion and tenure according to the following guidelines and procedures. Autonomous academic units shall consist of those units subject to the powers of the Faculty detailed in Section VI of the Constitution of the Faculty; other units may, at their option, adhere to these guidelines and procedures.
1.0 Decision
Levels: Nominations for promotion and/or
tenure shall be considered at several levels. The preponderance of the
evaluation of a candidate shall occur at the first level.
1.1 The department/program committee, whose composition and functions shall be established according to a procedure adopted by the faculty of the department/program and approved by the faculty of the school/division. The Senate Faculty Affairs Committee shall be consulted about any newly established committee composition and functions procedure, and any changes to an established procedure. The Senate shall have the right of review of this procedure. The department/program committee shall follow procedures established by the faculty of the school/division or, in the absence of such procedures, by the Senate.
In establishing their committees, departments should be guided by two principles: that all full-time, tenure-track members of the department shall have the opportunity to review and comment on each case for promotion and tenure; and that those persons possessing the same or higher rank or the status to which a candidate aspires should have major responsibility in formulating the department's recommendations, where possible.
The appointment letter of a faculty member to more than one academic unit shall identify that department/program whose tenure/promotion process shall apply to the appointee.
1.2 The chief academic officer of the department/program
1.3 The school/division committee(s), established by the school/division faculty, incorporated into the documents which define the procedures of faculty governance within the school/division, and approved by the Senate. This procedure shall be periodically published, simultaneously with the Bylaws of the Senate, as and when the Bylaws of the Senate are distributed.
Nothing in this document shall be construed as requiring a school or division without departments to perform a second review and make a second recommendation on promotion and tenure cases; however, when such a review and recommendation are made by a committee, the committee shall be constituted in such a way that a majority of its voting members will not have served on the first committee.
1.4 The chief academic officer of the school/division
1.5 The campus committee, consisting of the Chief Academic Officer of IPFW as nonvoting chair and seven tenured members of the Fort Wayne Faculty, a majority of whom hold the rank of Professor or Librarian, selected so as to provide balanced representation of the disciplinary areas. Voting members of this committee shall be elected to three-year terms, staggered in the first instance, by the Chief Administrative Officer of IPFW and the two Speakers of the Faculty. The committee members will be elected from a panel of nominees composed of at least two representatives from the faculty of each school/division selected according to procedures adopted by the school/division Faculty and incorporated into the documents which define the protocols of Faculty governance within the school/division. Voting members of this committee shall recuse themselves from considering cases of candidates with whom they share significant credit for research or creative endeavor which is part of the candidate's case. Faculty members shall not serve on this committee in a year when their own cases are pending. The purposes of this committee are to review the actions of the earlier decision levels to assure that the candidate is afforded basic fairness and due process in accordance with established university policies and procedures and to assess the adequacy and sufficiency of the evidence. The direct submission to members of materials which are not part of the promotion and/or tenure case dossier is prohibited.
1.6 The chief academic officer of IPFW
1.7 The chief administrative officer of IPFW, to forward recommendations to the President of Indiana University and to the President of Purdue University
2.0 Case Process
2.1 All cases for promotion and/or tenure shall pass sequentially through the decision levels above.
2.2 The administrator or committee chair at each level shall inform the candidate in writing of the vote or recommendation on the nomination, with a clear and complete statement of the reasons therefor, at the time the case is sent forward to the next level. At the same time, the administrator or committee chair shall also send a copy of the recommendation and statements of reasons to administrators and committee chairs at the previous level(s). Committee chairs shall distribute copies to committee members.
2.3 The deliberations of committees at all levels shall be strictly confidential, and only the chair may communicate a committee's decision to the candidate and to the next level. Within the confidential discussions of the committees, each member's vote on a case shall be openly declared. No abstentions or proxies are allowed.
3.0 Individual Participation
3.1 No person shall serve as a voting member of any committee during an academic year in which his or her nomination for promotion or tenure is under consideration, nor shall any individual make a recommendation on his or her own promotion or tenure nomination.
3.2 The department/program level excepted, no individual shall serve in a voting or recommending role at more than one decision level. In order that this be accomplished, the campus committee shall be filled before school/division committees. In the event that the chief academic officer of a department, program, school, or division serves as ex-officio member of a committee, then that person shall not vote during that committee's deliberations and decisions.