ARTICLES OF GOVERNMENT
ARTICLE X. Promotion Policies

Recommendation for promotion should always be based upon evidence that the candidate is an able teacher and possesses intellectual enthusiasm and power. In judging qualifications of candidates, reference will be made to teaching ability, evidence of scholarly strength and growth including research activity and potential, service to the College, including assumption of departmental and College wide responsibilities, and external professional activities. Work in progress as well as work completed will be considered. Procedures for review are described in Article IX, Section 6.

Promotion to the rank of Associate Professor will ordinarily occur when an Assistant Professor is granted tenure (see Article IX, Section 3.B.2). A candidate for promotion to the rank of Full Professor will ordinarily be reviewed in the seventh year in rank as Associate Professor. However, individual flexibility is appropriate in the timing of this decision. For the purpose of review in the sixth year in rank, an early promotion review may be initiated by the Reappointments and Promotion Committee on behalf of a candidate with a particularly strong record in all review categories. The Reappointments and Promotion Committee should send a letter initiating such a review to the Dean of the College by October 15 of the year in which the review will take place.

If a review does not result in promotion to Full Professor, the candidate, after consultation with his or her Reappointments and Promotion Committee, may request another review in any subsequent year. The candidate will be reviewed for merit no later than the third year after an unsuccessful promotion review.

In the event that a promotion review has not been requested by the eighth year in rank, the candidate will be reviewed for merit in that year and at three year intervals.