Review Committees' Structure

Various university committees review appointments, reappointments, tenure recommendations and promotions of faculty and EPA non-faculty.  Additional reviews by General Administration and the Board of Trustees for salaries above designated ceilings are addressed in a separate section.  The Board of Trustees and Board of Governors do not accept actions with retroactive effective dates; therefore, units should refer to the date chart to determine effective dates.  The following is a brief description of the university review committees.

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This consists of the Deans of the College of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School, and the Chair of each of the four College divisions (Fine Arts, Humanities, Basic and Applied Sciences, Social Sciences).  ASAC reviews all EPA tenure-track actions in the College.  ASAC recommends personnel actions to the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost.

This committee is comprised of faculty members from each of the Health Affairs Schools (two from School of Medicine, one each from the School of Public Health, School of Nursing, School of Dentistry and School of Pharmacy) and is chaired by the Executive Associate Provost.  HSAC advises the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost for EPA tenure and tenure-track appointments, reappointments and promotions.

This subcommittee is composed of three members of the APT committee, chosen in rotation from the full APT each month.  The subcommittee reviews all dossiers and reports to the full APT Committee.

This committee is composed of twelve members of the faculty holding permanent tenure at the rank of professor.  Four members hold primary appointments within the College of Arts and Sciences; four hold primary appointments in the School of Medicine, and four hold primary appointments within the professional schools other than the School of Medicine (School of Government, School of Law, School of Information and Library Science, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, School of Education, School of Nursing, School of Public health, School of Dentistry, School of Pharmacy). Members are elected by the voting faculty at large for three-year terms.  Terms are staggered so that at least one term from each of the three constituencies expires each year.  Elected members of the Advisory Committee, the Faculty Executive Committee, the Faculty Hearings Committee, and the Faculty Grievance Committee are not eligible to serve on the committee.

The committee is advisory to the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost with respect to:

• appointments, reappointments, and promotions that have the effect of conferring permanent tenure;
• promotions to a higher rank of persons holding permanent tenure at the rank of associate professor or assistant professor; and
• appointments to distinguished professorships that are not restricted by the terms of the endowment to a particular school or department.

The committee holds regular meetings once each month throughout the calendar year.