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School of Medicine and shall serve as chair of the Committee. The Assistant/Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs and the Dean shall also serve as ex officio members. The committee shall meet at least once a year and as needed. The committee shall review all applications for leaves and sabbaticals from faculty members of the School of Medicine in accordance with accepted policies, investigate the merits of the application, and submit a written recommendation to the Dean. f. Rank and Tenure Committee (1) Purpose The School of Medicine shall maintain a standing peer-review committee to review all dossiers of Teaching-Research, and Clinician-Educator Faculty candidates, both Tenure and Non-Tenure tracks, for conferral of tenure and/or advancement in rank. Written recommendations favoring or opposing the granting of tenure or advancement in rank, including the vote and the reasoning, shall be forwarded to the Dean of the School of Medicine, and shall become a part of the dossier of the candidate. (2) Membership The School of Medicine Rank and Tenure Committee shall consist of nine members of the tenured Teaching-Research Faculty and Clinician- Educator Faculty, at the rank of Associate Professor or above. The Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs shall be an ex officio member without vote. The ex officio member of the Rank and Tenure Committee will have only an observatory role and will clarify rules and bylaws. The Dean of the School of Medicine shall not be a member. Members of the University Rank and Tenure Committee may not serve on the School of Medicine Rank and Tenure Committee. Department Chairs shall not be nominated or elected to the Committee. There shall be four members from the Basic Science Faculty and five from the Clinical Faculty. The Committee on Committees shall present at least two nominees for each vacancy, and the members shall be elected in April of each year by the Teaching-Research, and Clinician-Educator Faculty of the Basic Science and Clinical Departments, as appropriate. Elections shall be for staggered three year terms running annually from July 1st through June 30th of the following year. Nominees shall be chosen to broadly represent all areas of the Basic Science Faculty and the Clinical Faculty, and no more than two elected members may be from the same Department, including those already on the Committee. Once two committee members represent a Department, other candidates from that Department with fewer votes, even though more than the next runner-up, shall be skipped and the next runner-up shall be considered elected. Vacated unexpired terms shall be filled for the remainder of the term by the Dean from the next available runner-up from the last election, considering the no more than two per Department rule. If no runner-ups are available, the Committee shall BYLAWS OF THE FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 30
provide the Dean a list of nominees from which to choose. Vacancies occurring after January 1 each year need not be filled. (3) School of Medicine Rank and Tenure Committee Operations The Chair of the Committee shall be elected by the members of the Committee at the first meeting of each academic year (with tenure from time of election to June 30 of the following year). For any meeting the Chair may designate an Acting Chair. Only members having served one full year on the Committee shall be eligible to be Chair. If a School of Medicine Rank and Tenure Committee member is initiated for promotion review the member shall take a leave of absence from the Committee for that academic year, and this shall be deemed to be a vacancy for that year. If any member of the Committee, including ex-officio members, has any direct supervisory relationship over any candidate, or if any member has any actual or perceived conflict of interest, such member shall be excused and absent himself/herself from the meetings of the Committee during deliberations concerning such candidate(s). Such an absence shall not constitute a vacancy. Each candidate shall also be allowed one peremptory challenge of any member of the Committee, which shall not count as a vacancy. Two thirds of the voting members of the Committee who are not excused for conflict of interest or by challenge shall constitute a quorum. All votes concerning tenure and/or promotion shall be by secret ballot. All members of the School of Medicine Rank and Tenure Committee agree to refrain from discussing the cases brought before the Committee outside formal committee sessions, except with other committee members, or as otherwise duly directed. All recommendations of the committee shall be accurately summarized by the Chair of the Committee and reported in writing, together with the vote and the reasoning for the recommendations, to the Dean of the School of Medicine, and shall be included in the candidate's dossier. (4) Review Process Dossiers for review for promotion in rank or the conferral of tenure shall be prepared and reviewed in accordance with the Handbook for Faculty, and any single document published by the University Committee on Rank and Tenure and reviewed by the Academic Council to assist candidates in the preparation of their dossier. The criteria for evaluation are given in the Handbook for Faculty. In the School of Medicine each candidate shall be evaluated in writing by the Department Chair, or by an individual designated in writing by the Chair or the Dean to perform such evaluation, prior to consideration by the School of Medicine Rank and Tenure Committee. The Office of the Dean of the School of Medicine shall contact at least six student references, and the six to twelve peer references cited by the candidate, as well as two external peer referees selected by the Dean or the Dean’s delegate (per the Faculty Handbook), and these shall be included in the dossier of the candidate prior to consideration by the School of Medicine Rank and Tenure Committee. The Office of BYLAWS OF THE FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 31
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