Faculty Recruitment and Hiring

Tenured Hires

Initial appointments with indefinite tenure may only be made at the rank of associate professor or professor. Such appointments may be made only after receiving the recommendation of the regular faculty holding indefinite tenure in the academic unit concerned (Board of Regents Policy - Faculty Tenure, Section 9) .

Appointments involving the conferral of tenure require the preparation of a dossier similar to those prepared in a faculty promotion case. When submitting a tenured-hire dossier, please submit the original and four copies. All materials in a tenured-hire dossier must be copied and included in the primary material. Tenured-hire dossiers do not include a separate, supplementary file.

Required Documentation

• Table of Contents
• Letter of Application
• Curriculum Vitae
• Research Statement
• Teaching Statement
• Description of the Relative Stature of Journals and Book Publishers
• Publications or other evidence and samples of scholarly or creative activity
• Documentation of successful teaching
• External Evaluators
  • List of evaluators and their credentials
  • Description of how evaluators were selected
  • Sample letter of solicitation
  • Evaluators CV’s (short versions)
  • Letters from external evaluators
• Department Report
  • Statement of unit procedures
  • Unit’s recommendation
  • Unit vote
  • Majority evaluation
  • Minority evaluation
• Unit head report

Tenured hires are reviewed initially by a subcommittee of the CLA Tenured Hire Review Committee. Tenured hires are subject to the approval of the dean, the vice provost for faculty and academic affairs, and the provost.

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