14 Faculty Handbook – August 2022 Promotion and Tenure Committee The Promotion and Tenure Committee makes recommendations on tenure and promotion to the President of the university. According to BOR Policy 4:11: • The institutional Promotion and Tenure Committee will consist of elected members of the faculty and members of the administration. The composition of the committee shall be: fifty percent (50%) faculty members; fifty percent (50%) administrative appointees. Each President shall determine the total number of members for the institutional promotion and tenure committee at each institution and inform the Faculty Senate of the total number of members. • The faculty representatives on the institutional Promotion and Tenure Committee will be elected by the faculty as soon as practicable after the commencement of school activities in the fall. Membership terms will be for three (3) years. • Vacancies shall be filled according to procedures established for the original appointment. Only tenured faculty members will be eligible for election to the institutional Promotion and Tenure Committee. Election procedures must provide all eligible faculty members who are still employed at the institution at the time of election, with equal opportunities to nominate candidates for committee membership, be nominated for committee membership, and to elect committee members. Alternates should be selected in the same manner. Faculty members, who themselves are to be considered for promotion or tenure, are not eligible for membership on the Promotion and Tenure Committee during the academic year in which their promotion or tenure is being considered. • Administrative appointees shall be appointed by the president or the president’s designee. • There shall be, in addition to the institutional promotion and tenure committees at USD and SDSU, college or school promotion and tenure committees as the case may be. At all institutions, departments or other appropriate administrative units may petition the president for the creation of a promotion and tenure committee for the respective department or unit. If approved, the president shall determine the membership consistent with the ratio and constituency heretofore established for the institutional promotion and tenure committee. • Each promotion and tenure committee shall be given institutional guidelines to be utilized in promotion and tenure recommendations. • The integrity of the promotion and tenure review process requires not only that it be fair, but also that it be regarded as fair. Therefore, individual committee members will recuse themselves whenever their ability to make a disinterested judgment might reasonably be called into question. • Faculty members, who themselves are to be considered for promotion or tenure, are not eligible for membership on the promotion and tenure committee during the academic year in which their promotion or tenure is being considered. If such a faculty member is denied promotion or tenure, the individual's term on the committee will be deemed to have expired. Faculty members who have been denied promotion may serve on the promotion and tenure committee if elected in an election held no sooner than one (1) academic year following the year in which the denial occurred. • Colleges, school, departments or other appropriate administrative units that have sufficient numbers of tenured faculty to form a committee may petition the president for the creation of a promotion and tenure committee for the respective college, school, department or unit.
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