To: NGCSU Faculty Senate

From: Steven Brehe, chair, the Faculty Affairs Committee 

Subject:Recommended revisions to the NGCSU faculty handbook

Date: February 3, 2003

In response to AVPAA Roberts-Betsch’s request, the Faculty Affairs committee has reviewed the BOR’s recent revisions to BOR policy 803.08, Criteria for Promotion.

In order to make NGCSU’s policies on faculty promotion conform more closely to those of the BOR, the committee recommends that the Senate should consider revising section 4.5, Promotion and Tenure,” of the Faculty Handbook, subsection II, “Criteria for Promotion.”The revision should be made to the paragraphs that now read as follows:

In cases where the requested promotion is from the rank of instructor to assistant professor, or from the rank of assistant professor to associate professor, in addition to providing evidence of teaching effectiveness, the candidate must also provide

evidence of noteworthy achievement in either the area of scholarship or the area of service. 

In cases where the requested promotion is from the rank of associate professor to full professor, in addition to providing evidence of teaching effectiveness, the candidate must also provide evidence of noteworthy achievement in both the area of

scholarship and the area of service.

We recommend that the Senate consider making additions to these paragraphs such as the following, indicated by underscoring:

In cases where the requested promotion is from the rank of instructor to assistant professor, or from the rank of assistant professor to associate professor, in addition to providing evidence of teaching effectiveness, the candidate must also provide

evidence of noteworthy achievement in either the area of scholarship or the area of service. In cases where the requested promotion is from the rank of assistant professor to associate professor, the candidate must also possess either an earned doctorate or its equivalent in training, ability, or expertise.

In cases where the requested promotion is from the rank of associate professor to full professor, in addition to providing evidence of teaching effectiveness and possessing the earned doctorate or its equivalent in training, ability, or expertise, the candidate must also provide evidence of noteworthy achievement in both the area of scholarship and the area of service.

Please let us know if the committee can assist in this matter in any other way.