1. Each year the University-level committees on promotion and tenure, and promotion and continuing status provide our office with valuable feedback on the successes and failures of the current processes. We then use this input to change policy, offer suggestions, and revise our online information.

   Recently we mailed out materials to help in the preparation of dossiers for the 2001-2002 reviews. To that same end, we are including the Committee feedback from this year, with annotations from this office. The Committees' comments are in normal type, and our recommendations are in bold type. Please distribute this information to all candidates and committee members participating in next year's reviews.

   • Recommendations from 2001 Advisory Committee on Promotion & Tenure
     
   • Recommendations from 2001 Advisory Committee on Continuing Status

2. During the past several years the problem of late dossiers has continued to increase, to the point that, in spite of a January 15 deadline, we were still receiving files in late April. Failures to meet the deadline have caused serious hardship for our colleagues on the University committees, who already contribute enormous amounts of time under the best of circumstances. It is our impression that most of the delays occur in the department and college reviews, and are usually not the fault of the candidate.

To resolve this problem, the following conditions will be effective for next year's review:

If there are any questions on the information in this memo, please contact Elizabeth Ervin at 621-1139.