Extramural Consultations

.117        Reviewing bodies considering a candidate for appointment or promotion to Ordinary Professor or for appointment with continuous tenure must establish the candidate’s standing within the field in which the proposed appointment is to be held.  For this purpose, a careful evaluation of the candidate’s achievements will be undertaken in consultation with specialists outside as well as within the university.  Such consultation should include the candidate’s publications and professional activity and, where pertinent, the candidate’s teaching and service record elsewhere. The extern specialists should include Faculty members from academic institutions of distinguished reputation.

.118        External referees are chosen by the departmental Chair or the Dean of the School. The candidate has the right to propose a limited number of names of externs for consideration; if such externs provide consultation, the fact that the candidate proposed them should be disclosed to reviewing bodies. In compiling the list of externs to be invited to review the case, the Chair or the Dean should consult other members of the Faculty, especially those with expertise in the pertinent area of scholarship. Requests for evaluation should be addressed to the externs by the Chair or the Dean. Effort must be made to receive some evaluations from externs other than those, as well as some of those, recommended by the candidate.

.119        Insofar as the law allows, communications between reviewing bodies and consultants are strictly confidential and both the reviewing bodies and the consultants should be so informed. 

.120        Successive reviewing bodies may seek additional extramural consultations whenever they deem it necessary.