Terminology and Qualifications

.050        Reviews for appointment and promotion are conducted at the level of the Academic Department (if the School is departmentalized), the School, and the Academic Senate.

.051        At the level of the Department, the qualified Faculty (below, .054-056) acts as a committee of the whole.

.052        At the level of the School, reviews are conducted by the Committee on Appointments and Promotions of the School, and, when required by procedures outlined in this section, by the Faculty of the School.

.053        At the level of the Academic Senate, reviews are conducted by its Committee on Appointments and Promotions, and, when required by procedures outlined in this section, by the Academic Senate. When the Academic Senate acts for this purposely Tenured Senior Professors (as defined below, .054-.055) are eligible to deliberate and vote.

.054        Ordinary and Associate Professors holding regular academic rank constitute Senior Faculty.  At every level of review only Senior Faculty are qualified to act on matters of appointment to Faculty rank and of promotion.

.055        Only Tenured Senior Faculty act on matters of Faculty reappointment and of tenure.

.056        In departmentalized Schools with more than 100 Faculty members, Ordinary Professors act on behalf and in the place of Senior Faculty in deliberations at the level of the School.

.057        Deliberative votes are votes of Faculty qualified (as defined above, .054-056) to act in matters of conferral of faculty rank, reappointment, promotion, and tenure. Deliberative votes are actions that determine the sequence of subsequent reviews.

.058        Consultative votes are expressions of opinion of all Faculty who hold regular academic rank in the matter of recruitment and initial appointment of new Faculty members.