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The decision of the Committee on Rank and Tenure regarding the fitness of the faculty member for
promotion is recommended to the Board of Trustees by the President except in the following situations:
a. when the President or Vice President for Academic Affairs believes that the Committee on Rank
and Tenure did not follow the procedures established in this handbook; or
b. when the Committee on Rank and Tenure did not obtain evaluation(s) of the material submitted
by the faculty member by appropriate off-campus expert(s) and the President or Vice President
for Academic Affairs deems it desirable to obtain such opinion(s); or
c. when the President has pertinent information, including, but not limited to, the independent
recommendations of the Dean and the Vice President for Academic Affairs, which was not
utilized by the Committee at the time of its deliberations.
In such instances, the President will forward such information to the Committee for its consideration and
the Committee will notify the President, in writing, of any change(s) in its recommendations. If a
difference of opinion continues to exist between the President and the Committee on Rank and Tenure,
the President or his designee will confer with the Committee and the Dean and will attempt to resolve this
difference of opinion prior to the President's decision which in any event will be final. In unusual
circumstances, a final decision may be deferred until after the above notification date, provided that all
interested parties are informed in writing of the reasons for the delay and the anticipated date of the
decision.
The Vice President for Academic Affairs will simultaneously inform in writing within ten (10) working
days after the Spring Board of Trustees meeting or the faculty member, the Department Chair or Program
Director, the Dean, and the Committee on Rank and Tenure of the action of the Board of Trustees on the
application for promotion in rank.
If all parties agree in writing in advance, these deadlines can be extended. If deadlines or extended
deadlines are not met by the candidate, the application will not be reviewed that year. If major deadlines
are not met by the supervisor, the Committee, the Dean, the Vice President for Academic Affairs or the
President, the Committee (or the President if the Committee has missed a major deadline or the Board of
Trustees if the President has missed a major deadline) will take whatever steps seem appropriate to
guarantee that subsequent deadlines are met.
18.1 Academic Administrators and Faculty Offices
ARTICLE XVIII
Miscellaneous
As long as a ranked member holds an appointment as an academic administrative officer as defined in
Article 9.3.2, s/he may not hold an elected faculty position on the Committee on Rank and Tenure or on
any other faculty committee where his/her position as an academic administrator would present a conflict
of interest with regard to the stated purposes of the committee. However, s/he is eligible to be elected to
all other faculty committees or honors unless such committees or honors are specifically restricted to fulltime
faculty members.
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