B.6 Tenure-Track Instructors in a Probationary Status

Faculty members who do not complete their terminal degree prior to their appointment at UT Austin may be appointed as tenure-track instructors pending completion of the terminal degree.

Tenure-track instructors who complete their terminal degree during the first year of academic service do not require promotion review. Formal documentation should be submitted to the Faculty Affairs team in the Provost’s Office, and the Provost’s Office will update the title to tenure-track assistant professor effective August 16 of the subsequent academic year.

Tenure-track instructors who complete their terminal degree in their second or third year of probationary service must be reviewed for promotion to tenure-track assistant professor at all levels, including the president.

All tenure-track instructors in their third year of probationary service must be reviewed, regardless of whether they have received their terminal degree.

At each level of review (Section A.2), recommendation options are

(1) “promote to tenure-track assistant professor” or

(2) “terminal appointment.”

Years of probationary service as a tenure-track instructor count toward years of probationary service as a tenure-track assistant professor.