Transcript Decision Tree for Memoranda of Understanding

Life after New 7.12:
Documenting Faculty Choice
Arlene Carney, Vice Provost for
Faculty and Academic Affairs
P & T Terms
• Regents Policy on Faculty Tenure – called the
Tenure Code as a short hand
• Section numbers refer to sections of this policy.
• Section 7.11 – the University-wide General
Criteria for Tenure
• Section 7.12 – the unit criteria for tenure in a
department, division, or college
• Section 9.2 – the University-wide Criteria for
promotion to professor
– Did not exist before the 2007 Faculty Tenure policy
Changes in Promotion and Tenure
• Faculty Tenure policy was revised in 2007.
• Previous version was dated 2001.
• A new Procedures for Reviewing Candidates
for Tenure and/or Promotion: Tenure-Track or
Tenured Faculty was implemented in 2007.
Changes in Promotion and Tenure
• The Provost called for revisions of each unit’s
7.12 Statement because both the Faculty
Tenure policy and the Procedures document
had been revised substantially.
Interpretation 6 of Faculty Tenure
• If a 7.12 Statement is changed, faculty (assistant
and associate professors) may choose either the
old or the new 7.12 statement.
• They must make the choice within one year of
administrative approval by the Provost.
• The new Procedures for Reviewing Candidates for
Tenure and/or Promotion: Tenure-Track or
Tenured Faculty (2007) requires the Provost to
obtain a written agreement from faculty
documenting their choice.
Interpretation 6 of Faculty Tenure
• If faculty do not make a choice between the
old and new 7.12 statements within one year
of administrative approval of the new 7.12
statement, then the default is the new 7.12
statement.
Memoranda of Understanding
• The documents are to be generated by the
Provost’s office, not by the candidate’s
department or college.
• These documents are to be signed by the
candidate, the unit head, the dean or
chancellor, and the provost.
Memoranda of Understanding
• Complicated by the date of hire of the faculty
member or the date of his or her promotion
to the rank of associate professor.
• We must get agreements for every assistant
and associate professor, both tenure-track and
tenured.
• Choice of 7.12 statement will also affect which
7.12 is used for annual review of probationary
faculty.
Presentation Overview
• The date “June 8, 2007” refers to the date
when the new Faculty Tenure policy was
accepted by the Board of Regents.
• The next slides show whether an MOU is
required and what should be in the MOU for
both untenured faculty and for tenured
associate professors.
Decision Tree for MOU: Untenured Faculty*
Hired after June 8, 2007 with new 7.12 in place
______________________________________
Hired after
June 8,
2007?
Use Tenure
Policy 2007
New,
Approved
7.12 at
hire**?
Use New,
Approved
7.12
**When payroll starts in regular,
salaried position at rank.
No MOU
required
*Untenured faculty refers to all ranks from
assistant through full professor .
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Decision Tree for MOU: Untenured Faculty*
Hired after June 8, 2007 with old 7.12 in place
___________________________________________
Hired after
June 8,
2007?
Old 7.12 at
hire?
Use Tenure
Policy 2007
(7.11)
Faculty has
the choice of
old or new
7.12.**
Chooses new
7.12
[7.11 (2007)]
Chooses old
7.12
[7.11 (2007)]
**If no MOU signed within one year of
approved 7.12, default is new 7.12.
*Untenured faculty refers to all ranks from
assistant through full professor .
Decision Tree for MOU: Untenured Faculty*
Hired before June 8, 2007
___________________________________________
New 2007
Hired
before June
8, 2007?
Choose Tenure
Policy
Old 7.12 at
hire?
Faculty has
the choice of
old or new
7.12.**
Old 2001
Chooses new
7.12
(new 7.11)
Chooses old
7.12
(old 7.11)
**If no MOU signed within one year of
approved 7.12, default is new 7.12.
*Untenured faculty refers to all ranks from
assistant through full professor .
Application of Choice
____________________________
• For untenured assistant or associate professors who
choose the old version of Faculty Tenure (2001) and
the old unit 7.12 Statement for the tenure and/or
promotion decision, the choice only applies to the
initial tenure and/or promotion decision.
• For subsequent promotion to professor, the faculty
member must be evaluated with the 2007 Faculty
Tenure policy and the new 7.12 Statement.
Decision Tree for MOU: Tenured Associate
Professor Hired or Promoted after June 8, 2007
with new 7.12 in place
_______________________________________
At rank or
hired after
June 8,
2007?*
New 7.12
at hire or
promotion
to rank?
*Promoted at end of 2007 or in 2008
Use 2007
Tenure Policy
(includes 9.2)
Faculty must
use the new
7.12.
No MOU
required
Decision Tree for MOU: Tenured Associate
Professor Hired or Promoted after June 8, 2007
with Old 7.12 in place
___________________________________________
Hired or at
rank after
June 8,
2007?
Old 7.12 at
promotion
to rank?
*If no MOU signed within one year of
approved 7.12, default is new 7.12.
Use 2007
Tenure Policy
(Includes 9.2)
Faculty has
the choice of
old or new
7.12.*
Chooses new
7.12
(new 9.2)
Chooses old
7.12
(new 9.2)
Decision Tree for MOU: Tenured Associate
Professor Hired or Promoted before June 8,
2007
________________________________________________
Old 2001
At rank
before June
8, 2007?
Choose Tenure
Policy
Old 7.12 at
promotion
to rank?
Faculty has
the choice of
old or new
7.12.*
*If no MOU signed within one year of
approved 7.12, default is new 7.12.
New 2007
Chooses new
7.12
(new 9.2)
Chooses old
7.12
(no Section 9.2)
Contact Information
____________________________
• Arlene Carney
Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs
[email protected]
612-626-9545
• Karen Zentner Bacig
Associate to the Vice Provost
[email protected]
612-626-9545