Promotion Decision for Associate Librarian

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Applications for promotion will be considered by a Promotion Review Committee.

• The Promotion Review Committee will consist of two Elon librarians at the Associate or Senior Librarian rank, two post-probationary Librarians and a post-probationary member of the teaching faculty, appointed by the Provost/Executive Vice President. The teaching faculty member of the committee will serve a two-year term. Librarian committee members will be elected by their library faculty peers for terms of two years, with no more than two consecutive terms.
• Committee members will be elected on a rotating basis: at the conclusion of each fiscal year, members who have completed their two-year terms will rotate off the committee, while the other members will stay on for a second year, joined by newly elected members. Committee members will elect a chair who serves as convener.
• If the supervisor of the candidate standing for promotion serves on the Promotion Review Committee, the supervisor will step down from the committee, and another post-probationary Elon University librarian will be elected to serve the remainder of their term on the Promotion Review Committee. The post-probationary librarian elected to serve must have a rank that satisfies the Promotion Review Committee’s composition requirements.

The Committee will review the applications for promotion and make its recommendation(s) to the Provost/Executive Vice President.

After the Provost/Executive Vice President has received the promotion recommendations from both the supervising Dean and the Promotion Review Committee, the Provost/Executive Vice President will call a joint meeting of the supervising Dean and the Promotion Review Committee to discuss the substance of the deliberations that led to their specific recommendations.

The Provost/Executive Vice President recommends promotion decisions to the President. The President of the University recommends promotion decisions for final approval to the Board of Trustees.