4) The VPAASS reviews the tenure requests and portfolios and makes recommendations to President (Late March). 5) The President reviews and approves the tenure requests and presents the list to the Board of Trustees (April-May). 6) The Board of Trustees provides final approval for all tenure recommendations (May- June). Promotion - In 2019, the Faculty Load Promotion and Tenure Committee (FLPTC) approved a revised promotion and tenure process, which includes a peer review of teaching component. Faculty who wish to apply for promotion must follow the process outlined below: 1) Faculty member must notify their Division Director of their intent to apply for promotion by the date established by the Office of Academic Affairs (Early September). 2) The Division Director notifies the Dean of Instruction of the faculty member’s intention to apply for promotion (Early September). 3) The Dean of Instruction assigns faculty members seeking promotion to members of the Faculty Committee for Peer Review of Teaching. In cases of conflict of interest or other reasonable justification, committee members may recuse themselves from reviewing an applicant, and an applicant may object to being reviewed by a committee member. In these cases, another member of the committee will be asked to serve as a reviewer (Late September). 4) The committee meets for training hosted by the Fletcher Center and coordination of peer review work (Early October). 5) Peer reviewers observe and evaluate candidates’ teaching materials and classroom teaching (October through December). • The peer review committee will review teaching only – and not the entire promotion portfolio. The peer review process and rubric will complement, not replace, the division director’s review. • Two committee members review the teaching of each applicant. The committee members review the same course at the same time. • Peer review of teaching is intended to be holistic in order to maintain and improve high standards of teaching. • Prior to the observation, the faculty member shares course resources and materials with peer reviewers (e.g., syllabus, online version of textbook/resources, learning objectives, student learning outcomes data, assignments). • Prior to the observation, the faculty member meets with the peer reviewers to discuss the faculty member’s teaching philosophy, goals, and approach. • The review is based on the Faculty Peer Review Rubric (see Appendix C). • Peer reviewers meet with each other to agree on the review and feedback. • Reviewers draft a summary of their findings. • Peer reviewers meet with the faculty member to share feedback. 6) Peer Review teams summarize findings and forward the summaries and rubrics to the faculty candidates. The peer review summary is included in the faculty member’s promotion portfolio. If the summary is not included in the portfolio, then the portfolio is incomplete and the process stops (Mid-January). 7) Faculty members send their promotion portfolios to their Division Director (Late January).
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