Important Due Dates
2007-08

I. LEAVES: Applications and Reports (to Committee on Faculty Appointments)

A. October 1, 2007 -- Report on leave in academic year 2006-07 or Spring 2007

B. October 1, 2007 -- Application for leave in 2008-09

C. February 29, 2008 -- Report on leave in calendar year 2007 or Fall 2007

D. March 3, 2008-- Memo of intent to take leave during academic year 2009-10

II. GRANTS AND AWARDS APPLICATIONS: (For details, see memo entitled Faculty Awards: Guidelines and Information on Awards to the Faculty for Scholarly Activities in the Research Awards and Grants section of this handbook or on CWIS.)

A. General Awards (to Faculty Awards Committee)

1. Monday, September 17, 2007

2. Monday, November 5, 2007

3. Monday, February 4, 2008

4. Monday, April 7, 2008

B. Travel reimbursement grants (to Dean's Office). Applications may be made at any time throughout the year.

III. MERIT REVIEWS FOR ELIGIBLE FULL AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS (to the Dean of the College)

March 31, 2008 -- Materials from Full and Associate Professors eligible for Merit Review

IV. TENURE/ PROMOTION CANDIDATES (to the Dean of the College)

A. November 15, 2007 -- List of nominators of outside evaluators of scholarly work: spring 2008 promotion or tenure decisions

B. December 17, 2007 -- Materials for outside evaluators for spring 2008 tenure decisions

C. January 15, 2008-- Materials for outside evaluators for spring 2008 promotion decisions

D. April 15, 2008 -- List of nominators of outside evaluators of scholarly work: fall 2008 tenure decisions

E. July 15, 2008 -- Materials for outside evaluators for fall 2008 tenure decisions

V. IMPORTANT DUE DATES FOR REAPPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS COMMITTEES: 2007-08

I. Submit Recommendations to the Committee on Faculty Appointments

A. October 15, 2007 -- Tenure (Assistant Professors)

B. March 3, 2008 -- Reappointments requiring one-year notification (See Articles of Government, Book I, Article IX, Section 4).

C. March 17, 2008-- Tenure (Associate and Full Professors)

D. April 15, 2008 -- Promotion to Full Professor

II. Submit Recommendations to the Dean of the College

A. March 3, 2008 -- Recommendations for Instructors in Science Laboratory: all reappointments

B. Spring 2008 -- Recommendations for non-tenure-track faculty contract renewals

III. Submit to the Dean of the College

A. September 17, 2007-- Verification of 2006-07 annual conversations for tenure-track faculty members; verification of 2006-07 conversations for tenured fourth-year associate professors

B. October 15, 2007 -- Names of candidates to be considered for early promotion to full professor in Spring 2008

C. September 15, 2008 -- Verification of 2007-08 annual conversations for tenure-track faculty members; verification of 2007-08 conversations for tenured fourth-year associate professors