Faculty Committee on Professional Development and Scholarship

Minutes of the meeting held on February 7, 2006.

Present: Mary Hayes, Konia Kollehlon, Roxana Moayedi, V.R.Nemani, and Raul Tovares.

The committee discussed the process for the third-year review of tenure-track faculty. It was noted that at the Academic Assembly on January 14, 2005, the following procedure for third-year review was approved.

1. The Dean, the faculty member being reviewed and the faculty mentor (appointed by the Vice President for Academic Affairs) work to shape the tenure-track faculty member’s professional development plans in anticipation of the third-year review.

2. The Vice President for Academic Affairs will establish the timeline and the forms to be utilized in the third-year review process.

3. The Dean of each school initiates and oversees the third-year review of faculty holding appointments in their school. Responsibilities include providing dates and forms for participants, conferring with faculty, and maintaining all records.

4. A Third-Year Review Committee will be annually appointed by the Vice President for Academic Affairs. It will consist of three to six tenured faculty selected from the current year’s members of Rank & Tenure and Professional Development and Scholarship Committees. This committee will review the documentation, described below and make a one-page recommendation to the faculty member, their Dean and the Vice President for Academic Affairs.

Prepared by V.R.Nemani