Decision for Promotion to Senior 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 and Vice President for Academic Affairs. 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 term 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 and Vice President for Academic Affairs.

After the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs has received the promotion recommendations from both the supervising Dean and the Promotion Review Committee, the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs 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 and Vice President for Academic Affairs recommends promotion decisions to the President. The President of the University recommends promotion decisions for final approval to the Board of Trustees.