TENURE REVIEW PROCEDURE	No. 8-18	Rev. 7-8-93
		Date 5-13-81

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POLICY

Weber State University shall maintain review procedures to evaluate and record the progress of probationary faculty members toward tenure. Full evaluations shall be made during the fourth and seventh probationary years. A faculty member, their department chair, the dean or the provost may also request an additional review in other probationary years . A progress report, including written evaluations of a non-tenured faculty member, shall be placed in the file of the faculty member recording the findings of the review and shall be transmitted to the faculty member. The faculty member shall be given appropriate opportunity to discuss strengths, weaknesses, goals, etc. at each review level.

In addition, in the second year of a candidate's progress toward tenure, the department chair will do an assessment of the candidate's progress. This assessment may be done with or without the assistance of a departmental committee at the sole discretion of the department chair. The candidate's teaching, service and scholarship shall be evaluated and an overall written assessment of progress made. The department chair shall send a written report to the candidate and the candidate's dean and shall submit the report for inclusion in the candidate's professional file. There is no evaluation beyond the department level. When candidates in their second year of progress toward tenure are either to be evaluated in that year for promotion or have requested an additional review, the department chair may choose to let that promotion evaluation serve in place of the second year assessment of progress toward tenure.

During the fourth and seventh years of the probationary period, and other years when requested, the full review process shall include evaluations by the dean and the ranking tenure evaluation committees at the levels of the department and the college. At his sole discretion, the provost may review and make separate recommendations for or against a candidate's tenure or evaluation of a candidate's progress towards tenure. An exception is that in the event that there is a conflict among recommendations from the dean, the college Tenure Evaluation Committee and the department Tenure Evaluation Committee, the provost must make a separate recommendation. The provost's is the final institutional recommendation unless overturned by the president or the Faculty Board of Review, as is the dean's recommendation when the provost makes no recommendation. All these reviews shall follow established procedures allowing for formal evaluative contributions from students, faculty peers, and supervisory administrators and shall give faculty members under review written evaluations with the right of due process review by the Faculty Board of Review (as described in PPM 9-9 and following).

Faculty members who have been granted extensions of the probationary period beyond the normal seven years shall annually be subject to formal review. For those faculty members who have been granted reductions in the normal probationary period of seven years under the policies described in PPM 8-21 and/or 8-22 herein, a determination shall be made by the dean during the first year of appointment on the tenure track with respect to the proper scheduling of the formal review process. The findings of that determination shall be placed in writing in the candidate's professional file described in PPM 8-24.