Senate
(Approved, 3/15/2004)
TO: The Senate
FROM: Faculty Affairs Committee
David Oberstar, Chair
DATE: February 27, 2004
RE.: Composition of the Promotion and Tenure Committee of the Library
DISPOSITION: To the presiding officer for implementation
Whereas the Faculty Affairs Committee has approved the revisions to SD 89-4, Procedures for Librarians' Promotion and Tenure,
Therefore be it resolved that the Senate approve said revisions.
Senate Document SD 89-4
(Approved, 9/18/1989)
(Amended & Approved, 10/8/1990)
PROCEDURES FOR LIBRARIANS' PROMOTION AND TENURE
PREAMBLE:
IPFW Librarians are part of the Indiana University Libraries
system and as such must follow the system-wide procedures and criteria
for promotion and tenure as stated in Indiana University Libraries Library
Faculty Handbook. These criteria are also stated in FWSD Senate
Document SD 90-3 (Approved 4/24/1989). With regard to promotion and tenure
procedure on the IPFW campus, FWSD 88-13 (Section 1.3) (Amended
12/12/1988 and Amended and Approved 1/16-1/23/1989) charges each
school/division faculty (1) to approve department/program promotion and
tenure committee composition and functions (Section 1.3). This document
is submitted to the Senate pursuant to FWSD 88-13, its provisions are
subordinate to it, and revisions to it require Senate review.
PROCEDURES:
THE CAMPUS COMMITTEE
The names of all eligible librarians will be placed on a ballot. All tenured and tenure-track librarians will vote for two candidates. Those two librarians who receive the highest number of votes will become the library's nominees for the Campus Committee. A tie vote will be decided by a run off election. The names of the nominees will be forwarded to the chancellor by the director of the library.
THE PRIMARY LIBRARY COMMITTEE ON PROMOTION AND TENURE
The Primary Library Committee on Promotion and Tenure will
consist of all tenured and tenure-track librarians, excluding the
director and the candidate(s). If fewer than three librarians are eligible
to serve, all of the tenured and tenure-track librarians will submit to the
director the names of three to five tenured faculty
from other IPFW academic departments suitable to serve on the committee. From
this list the director will solicit and appoint enough faculty
to bring the committee membership to a minimum of three. One tenured
librarian will be elected by the committee to serve as chair each year. All
members of the committee will vote on tenure and promotion cases. All
full-time, tenure-track members of the department shall have the opportunity to
review and comment on each case for promotion and tenure at the first meeting.
Cases will be decided according to the library Libraries
system criteria as stated in the Faculty Senate in SD
90-3.
Each librarian's member's vote on a case will
be openly declared. A simple majority of the ballots cast will constitute a
positive recommendation by the Primary Library Committee. The chair will write
a recommendation based on the vote. This recommendation will be reviewed and
approved by the committee. At the time the case is sent forward to the next
level, the chair will inform the candidate in writing of the vote and the
recommendation with a statement of the reasons therefor.
The case and the Primary Library Committee's recommendation
will be forwarded to the library director for his/her recommendation. The
library director will inform the candidate and the Primary Library Committee in
writing of his/her recommendation with a statement of the reasons therefor. The dossier is then routed in the following
manner set forth in the I.U.