Wellesley College Committee on Faculty Appointments

Function: The Committee on Faculty Appointments (CFA) is a standing committee of Academic Council. The functions of the CFA include the following:

• Vote upon recommendations to be made by the President to the Board of Trustees regarding tenure appointments, promotions, and reappointments of tenure-track faculty.
• Vote upon recommendations to be made by the President to the Board of Trustees regarding reappointments and promotions of faculty on term appointments at the ranks of lecturer and senior lecturer.
• Vote upon recommendations to be made by the President to the Board of Trustees regarding reappointments and promotions of PERA assistant professors of the practice, PERA associate professors of the practice, and PERA professors of the practice.
• Vote upon recommendations to be made by the President to the Board of Trustees regarding reappointments and promotions of instructors in science laboratory.
• Prepare policy guidelines regarding appointments, promotions, and tenure of faculty.
• Approve applications for sabbatical and early leaves of tenured and tenure-eligible faculty as well as professional development leaves of eligible faculty on term appointments and instructors in science laboratory.

A complete description of the committee's functions, authority, operations, and membership can be found in the Articles of Government, Article V, Section 12.

 Members of the Committee on Faculty Appointments (CFA) for 2009-10:

President - H. Kim Bottomly
Dean of the College - Chair, Andrew Shennan
Associate Dean of the College - Joanne Berger-Sweeney (non-voting)
Faculty:
Dan Brabander 09-12 (C)
Emily Buchholtz 09-12 (at large)
Selwyn Cudjoe 09-11 (Black Task Force Rep.)
Elizabeth DeSombre 07-10 (B)
Vernon Shetley 09-12 (A)
Eve Zimmerman 08-11 (at large)

Clerk of the CFA: Ruth Frommer, Office of the Dean of the College

LINKS:

• Important due dates for 2009-10
• For review of tenure-track and tenured faculty:
  • checklist for R&P Committee
  • checklist for reappointment
  • checklist for tenure
  • checklist for promotion
  • guidelines for activities sheets
  • template of activities sheets
• For faculty on term appointments:
• guidelines for faculty on term appointments
• checklist for review of faculty on term appointments
• template of activities sheets (FTA version)
• For PERA faculty:
  • guidelines for the Department of Physical Education, Recreation and Athletics (PERA)
• For instructors in science laboratory
  • guidelines for appointments of instructors in science laboratory
  • checklist for review of instructors in science laboratory
  • template of activities sheets (ISL version)
• Annual conversation verification form
• List of faculty under review this academic year
• Information on writing letters about faculty members
• Links to college legislation (regarding leaves, appointments and promotion)

• Ruth Frommer rfrommer@wellesley.edu
• Office of the Dean of the College
• Date Created: September 1, 2002
• Last Modified: October 1, 2009