Tenure & Recontracting and Promotion

Tenure & Recontracting and Promotion

Tenure & Recontracting and Promotion Committee

The Senate Tenure & Recontracting and Promotion Committees were merged into a single Tenure, Recontracting, and Promotion Committee (TR&P). The University Senate TR&P Committee only evaluates faculty files that either receive one or more negative votes or abstentions at the departmental or college level, or receive a negative recommendation from the Dean. This review is limited only to verifying that there have been no process violations while assessing the candidate at the committee, college, or Dean levels. It is not a substantive review on the merits of the application, nor should it offer an opinion or recommendation on the personnel benefit being sought out in those applications. In addition, because the Library is not part of a college, the Senate TR&P Committee will replace the College TR&P Committee to evaluate the librarians’ files.

Information on the Senate TR&P Committee composition can be found here.

**Due to the sudden migration of all courses to online delivery, the requirement to have peer observations and student evaluations was waived for the spring 2020 semester.  If you obtained student evaluations and peer observations for your own use, you could opt to include them, but you are not required to, in future Tenure and Recontracting applications. 

The T&R and Promotion MOAs are also available at the  Academic Affairs Website. The COVID-19 Impact Statement can be found here.

For additional information and help, consult the T & R resources (process, packet design, formatting PDF's, conducting peer observations etc.) offered by the the Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning 
 
The Chair for the Tenure, Recontracting, andn Promotion Committee Chairpersons:

Important Deadlines

The Libraries’ Tenure, Recontracting, and Promotion Committee (LTRPC) should establish its own deadline in advance of these deadlines, ensuring that candidates have at least 24 hours to read and respond to the department committee's recommendation and letter.

University Senate TR&P Committee Deadlines:  Deliver e-copy by:

  • Candidates in the Sixth Year of Service (applying for Seventh Year contract carrying Tenure): October 8th
  • Candidates in the Fourth or Fifth Year of Service (applying for Fifth and/or Sixth Year contracts): October 29th
  • Candidates in the Second or Third Year of Service (applying for Third and/or Fourth Year contracts): February 11th

Submission of Materials

 Candidates must meet the following requirements before you submit any materials:
  • convert the original recontracting file (including signatures) and the supplemental folder to indexed searchable PDF file(s) in accordance with the stipulated formatting guidelines (see p. 11, 15 and 23 of the MOA and this Faculty Center link)
  • Senate Office submission: email your PDF file(s)to senatetandr@rowan.edu 
  • If your file(s) is/are too large to submit by email, save them to a Google Drive folder and provide the location links via email.

Memorandum of Agreement

Forms

Significant Changes 2021-22

1) First year faculty will submit only an executive summary and CV to their Department TR&P Committee and Dean.

2) The Senate Tenure & Recontracting and Promotion Committees will be merged into a single Tenure, Recontracting, and Promotion Committee.

3) Colleges will have a combined Tenure, Recontracting, and Promotion Committee.

4) The new College TR&P committee will review all recontracting files, except for first year faculty. The new Senate TR&P Committee will only review cases when there are split votes within a committee, vote abstentions, and/or negative re-contracting Deans’ decisions. Because they are not part of a college, Librarians will be reviewed by the Senate TR&P Committee.

5) Faculty applying for 3rd & 4th year recontracting will be reviewed in the spring of second year of service.

6) Deans will have recontracting authority for 3rd & 4th year recontracting. The Provost will only review appeals of negative Deans’ decisions.

7) Faculty applying for Tenure in Fall 2022 and beyond will need three external review letters.

8) Packets are due from Tenure candidates first, then 4th (and 5th) year candidates, then 2nd (and 3rd) year candidates.

9) Changes to department criteria documents must be clearly marked in the new document using the Track Changes function.

 

Committee Members - Academic Year 21-22

 Cristina Iftode, Co-Chair Faculty- College of Science/Mathematics 
 Julie Haynes, Co-Chair Faculty, College of Comm, Creative Arts
 Ted Schoen Faculty - College of Business
 Xiufang Chen Faculty - College of Education
 Jie Li Faculty - College of Engineering
 Natalie Schell-Busey Faculty - College of Humanities/Social Sciences
 Anthony Hostetter Faculty - College of Performing Arts
 Kathryn Behling Faculty - Cooper Med School RU
 Patti Coughlan Lecturer- College of Comm, Creative Arts
 Samantha Kennedy Librarian
 Kim Poolos Professional Staff - College of Science/Math
 Brittine Pratt Professional Staff - College of Engineering
 Paul Grossman Librarian - AFT Representative (non-voting)

End of Year Reports