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The committee consists of five tenured professors or associate professors, one from each school, who are selected by the faculty of each school.  When cases for promotion to full professor are being considered, and the school鈥檚 representative is an associate professor, an alternate at the rank of full professor will be selected by the school鈥檚 faculty to serve.

The College P&T Advisory Committee assists the dean in making college-level decisions regarding tenure and promotion. Specifically, the committee will advise the dean in the following cases:

1. Whether to accept or to reject the positive recommendation of a school for its faculty member鈥檚 promotion and/or tenure by ensuring that each school鈥檚 promotion and tenure committee, and director, have made decisions consistent with the expectations outlined in the school鈥檚 promotion and tenure document. Every person involved in the process will adhere to terms in the candidate鈥檚 original employment contract and any subsequent modifications made in accordance with the Scripps College faculty workload policy.  In rare instances, the committee may make recommendations contrary to the school vote; such recommendations must be explicitly justified using the criteria of the school鈥檚 promotion and tenure document. The votes of the committee are not binding on the dean although the dean will communicate with members of the committee when they make a decision contrary to the committee鈥檚 advice.
2. When the dean is hearing an appeal of a negative decision made at the school level or at the dean level, the committee will also act in an advisory role.  In such cases, the committee will review only the elements of the case that are being contested. The committee is to focus on the three criteria of an appeal: due process, adequate consideration and academic freedom. The committee also will consider whether the process has fulfilled the requirements of transparency, clarity, consistency, timeliness and fairness that are stipulated in the Faculty Handbook.  When evaluating the appeal of a promotion/tenure denial, the committee will be provided with all documents submitted by the appellant as well as all documents pertaining to the denial.
3. The committee will also advise the dean when a school recommends that tenure be granted as a condition of hiring a new tenure-track faculty member (usually, someone who has already achieved tenure elsewhere). In such cases, the director will provide to the dean and college committee a packet of materials demonstrating the candidate鈥檚 effectiveness in teaching, research/creative/professional activity and service. The committee and the dean will consult the most current P&T criteria of the school in question when evaluating the candidate鈥檚 recent records of teaching/advising, professional/research/creative activity and service. The committee鈥檚 recommendation should be based upon evidence that suggests the candidate is likely to make significant positive contributions to the academic mission of 帝王会所.

In addition, when the dean receives a school-level recommendation that tenure be revoked (鈥渓oss of tenure鈥�), the dean may consult with the College P&T Advisory Committee to ensure the decision-making process adheres to the procedures in the Faculty Handbook.  If the College P&T Advisory Committee is assembled for such a purpose, it will advise the dean to ensure the process is transparent, clear, consistent, timely and fair, as required by the Faculty Handbook.

The dean may also convene the College P&T Advisory Committee to seek advice when working with individual schools in establishing and/or revising school-level promotion and tenure documents. The committee鈥檚 role in such cases will be to consider whether the school level procedures and criteria adhere to the most current Faculty Handbook and germane 帝王会所 policies. 

The College P&T Advisory Committee may invite the candidate for promotion/tenure, director, and/or member(s) of the school鈥檚 promotion and tenure committee to attend any meeting of the committee. Such invitations should occur when the committee seeks additional explanation or perspective about the materials, recommendation and/or appeal submitted.

All procedures must adhere to the 帝王会所 Faculty Handbook. The following summary outlines the basic steps outlined in the handbook. Specific deadlines are listed in the Appendix.

The faculty member prepares a case for promotion/tenure organized as indicated in the Chairperson鈥檚 and Director鈥檚 Handbook (see Appendix).  The committee receives the dossier of the person being recommended, letters of evaluation completed by reviewers external to 帝王会所 (if applicable), the summary assessment of the school鈥檚 promotion and tenure committee and the letter from the director giving their independent recommendation for or against tenure/promotion. In addition, schools are responsible for providing a packet of materials that will be forwarded to the Provost and President for review. That packets consist of copies of materials in the dossier as well as a summary document detailing qualifications of the candidate. View descriptions of the packets for both tenure-track and instructional faculty. The candidate鈥檚 packet should be reviewed by the candidate and the school director before it is forwarded to the college to ensure it conforms to university guidelines. Each committee member reviews the individual鈥檚 record before committee discussion of each case.  No one, including the representative from the school of the person being considered, is assigned the role of advocate.  Instead, the committee, in open discussion, measures the school and director recommendations against the school鈥檚 promotion and tenure procedures and criteria.

The evaluation process of the College P&T Advisory Committee will follow these procedures:

1. Once a promotion/tenure-related case is forwarded from the school level to the college level, the dean will make the application, dossier and supporting materials available for inspection by members of the College P&T Advisory Committee. When forwarding such a recommendation to the dean, the school director will ensure that the dean also has a copy of the applicable school P&T policy, as faculty are to be assessed by the criteria in place when they were hired (unless the candidate asks in writing to be evaluated under newer criteria). The dean will ensure that the College P&T Advisory Committee is provided with the appropriate criteria for each candidate. Those documents should be available in an appropriate space within the dean鈥檚 office at least seven business days prior to the college committee meeting so that committee members can inspect them there. To ensure maximum availability, committee members should not remove any documents from that location (for example, they should not take the documents to their offices but rather should review them at the designated location).
2. At least 10 business days prior to the Faculty Handbook deadline for the dean鈥檚 decision, the dean will convene a meeting of the College P&T Advisory Committee. If multiple promotion/tenure cases are to be considered that year, the dean may ask to schedule two or more meetings, depending on the quantity and complexity of the cases.
3. The dean will schedule, convene and attend the meeting as a nonvoting member. The committee chairperson will facilitate the process. Committee members will separately discuss each case to be considered, and the chairperson will ensure that each committee member has an opportunity to speak. The discussion will be followed by a vote to either support or not support the school recommendation. Committee members from the same school as a candidate may comment, but may not vote, on those cases. Votes of acclamation should be the norm, but anonymous voting by paper ballot may be requested by any member of the committee.
4. The chairperson of the committee will record the vote and solicit reasons for it. Committee members are expected to provide explanations for both positive and negative votes to assist the dean in making a decision and explaining that decision, as required by the Faculty Handbook. Within five business days after the College P&T advisory committee meeting, the chairperson will provide to the dean a written summary of the outcome of the vote, the committee鈥檚 recommendation, and a summary of the reasons for it, including minority opinions. The recommendation is advisory to the dean only.
5. The dean will add the letter to the documentation regarding the case and refer to the committee鈥檚 recommendation in the written decision. This letter should state how the candidate鈥檚 dossier meets or does not meet the school鈥檚 individual promotion/tenure requirements.

As committee members review the forwarded materials, and then prepare a recommendation for the dean, they will adhere to the standards of professional conduct expressed in the 帝王会所 Faculty Handbook and the 帝王会所 Policy Manual.