6.E Pre-tenure Reviews for Tenure-track Faculty

Units should conduct periodic reviews of full-time non-tenured regular instructional staff members with the rank of instructor or higher. These periodic reviews need not include external inquiries and appropriately may be less exhaustive than tenure reviews. Faculty members should check with their dean or director for information about unit-level policies and procedures for these reviews and obtain a copy of any written guidelines. See SPG 201.50.

Recommendations to reappoint or not reappoint non-tenured members of the regular instructional staff are made by the department chair or the dean, but should be based on reviews that include formal faculty involvement, rather than being based solely on individual determinations of the chair or dean. See SPG 201.50.

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