Formation of a Tenure/Promotion Appeal Hearing Board

• The Chair of Academic Council will serve as the Chair of the Tenure/Promotion Appeal Hearing Board unless they are not a teaching faculty member or they have participated in any way in the tenure or promotion process being appealed (this includes, but is not limited to, writing a Unit III for the grievant in question or contributing a letter of reference to that person’s tenure/promotion digital portfolio). In the event that either of these conditions applies to the Chair of Academic Council, Academic Council will elect a teaching faculty member of Academic Council who has not participated in any way in the tenure or promotion process being appealed to serve as Chair of the Hearing Board.
• Upon receipt of the Notice of Appeal, the Chair of the Tenure/Promotion Appeal Hearing Board will choose three tenure/promotion appeal committee members to serve on the Tenure/Promotion Appeal Hearing Board for the appeal, certain that none of the three has participated in any way in the tenure or promotion process being appealed (this includes, but is not limited to, writing a Unit III for the faculty member in question or contributing a letter of reference to that person’s tenure/promotion digital portfolio). Representatives will recuse themselves from the Hearing Board if they believe they have a conflict of interest.
• The Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs will choose an academic Dean from the College of Arts and Sciences, the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, the School of Communications, the Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education, or the School of Health Sciences to serve on the Tenure/Promotion Appeal Hearing Board, provided that they are not the academic Dean of the grievant making the appeal and that they have not participated in any way in the tenure/promotion process being appealed.
• All five members of the Tenure/Promotion Appeal Hearing Board have a vote, and decisions are made by simple majority.
• Once the Tenure/Promotion Appeal Hearing Board has been created, the members of that Board will serve until the President notifies them that a final decision has been rendered.