A.4 Eligibility to Vote on a Promotion Review Committee

Unless otherwise stated in a governance document for the college/school that the Provost’s Office has approved, eligibility to vote on a promotion review committee (BC/EC or CAC) for tenured and tenure-track faculty is limited to tenured faculty.

• For review of tenure-track faculty members,

  • all voting members of the review committee must hold tenured appointments and must be at a rank equal to or above the rank for which the candidate is being considered.

• For review of tenured faculty members,

  • all voting members of the review committee must be tenured full professors.

A faculty member with a potential or real conflict of interest related to the candidate, as defined in Section D.5, is ineligible from voting and must recuse themselves from the review, discussion, and vote on that candidate.

Because department chairs write an independent statement, they are not eligible to vote as a member of the BC/EC. Similarly, deans are not eligible to vote on the BC/EC or CAC.

Each faculty member participating in a candidate’s promotion review may only vote once. Colleges/schools must develop guidelines to ensure that CAC members vote either as members of the BC/EC or the CAC.