Faculty Personnel Policies

B3: Terms of Appointment: Contracts,
Evaluatons, Salaries and Promotions

d: Promotion

1. Promotion in rank is determined in light of the criteria established (see Section B2.b.) and in accordance with the procedures described above for faculty evaluation (B3.b).  Consideration is given to length of time in present rank and to the integrated record of performance, i.e., the sum of the impact a faculty member has had on, and beyond, the Hope community with respect to teaching, advising, scholarship, and service over a period of years.
   


2. Overtures for promotion normally are made to the Status Committee by the departmental chairperson and divisional dean, but may originate from another administrator or from the individual faculty member seeking consideration.  Details of procedures and deadlines are available from the Office of the Provost.
   
   
   1. Ordinarily, an individual is recommended for promotion from assistant professor to associate professor at the time that he or she is recommended for tenure.
   
   
   2. The process of promotion from associate professor to professor ordinarily begins no earlier than an individual’s sixth year in rank.  At the request of the faculty member, his/her department chair and dean will confer about his/her integrated record of performance (including SIR’s administered during the previous year) and determine whether to recommend the individual for promotion the following year. 
   
   
   3. If an individual is not recommended for promotion, he or she will be notified in writing of the reasons; the dean and the chair will reconsider the decision when the candidate furnishes evidence that he or she now meets the criteria established in section B2b of the Faculty Handbook.
   
   
   4. Early promotion is possible when the dean and the chair judge an individual’s performance as clearly exceptional in terms of all the criteria established in section B2b of the Faculty Handbook.

 

3. Proposals for promotion of a departmental chairperson normally shall be initiated by the divisional dean.
   
   
4. Promotion Procedures for Fractional and Full-time Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
   
   
   
   1. The policy for promotion of adjunct faculty is set forth in “Policies Regarding Salaries, Benefits and Status of Part-time Faculty and Coaches."
      
      
   2. Normally, advancement in rank shall require the following minimum number of years of FTE service at each rank:
      
      

      Instructor to Assistant Professor	2
      Assistant to Associate Professor	7
      Associate to Professor	12

      
      
   3. Advancement in rank shall depend upon consistently favorable performance evaluations during the years in rank, and shall be dependent upon the criteria for each academic rank listed in the Faculty Handbook (B2b).

      The process shall be initiated by the department chairperson in consultation with the dean.

      The process shall follow the procedures and schedule established for tenure-track faculty being considered for promotion.

      Recommendations to the Board of Trustees regarding promotion in rank shall be made by the president upon formal action by the Status Committee.

      The new rank shall become effective with the next contract year.

5. Persons promoted receive a standard salary adjustment when promoted from assistant professor to associate professor or from associate professor to professor.

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