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UNIVERSITY SENATE
UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
Criteria for Promotion and Continuing Appointment
INTRODUCED BY: Council on Promotion and Continuing Appointment
DATE:
April 30, 1990
IT IS HEREBY PROPOSED:
I.
That the changes to Bill 7980-30 be approved.
Bill 8990-28
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That the Bill be referred to the President for approval and implementation .
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CRITERIA FOR PROMOTION AND CONTINUING APPOINTMENT
Proposed Changes to Senate Bill 7980-30:
(Please note: Proposed additions or changes in wording are in boldfaced type and
contained in brackets.)
Section L Criteria
A.
Recommendations [for teaching faculty] shall be based primarily upon a careful
deliberation concerning the effectiveness of the candidate within each of the three
following categories as are appropriate to the position of the candidate within the
university.
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Categories 1, 2, and 3 follow as written.
Proposed additional section to read as follows:
[Recommendations for library academic faculty shall be based primarily upon a
careful deliberation concerning the effectiveness of the candidate within each of the
three following categories as are appropriate to the position of the candidate within
the university.
1.
Effectiveness in Librarianship as documented by such things as peer and
professional colleague evaluations of quality of performance, knowledge, skill,
and innovation; faculty and student evaluation; evidence of significant
contributions to library collections or services for the benefit of library
clientele.
2.
Scholarship as documented by evaluations of such things as success in developing
and earring out significant research work in the field and by the mastery of
subject matter as demonstrated by advanced degrees, certificates, or other
continuing education.
3.
Service as demonstrated by such thingS as participation in the profession of
librarianship, in departmental, library, and university duties and governance,
professional societ".f activities, and such public and community service as is
related to the candidate's area of expertise.]
Section IV. Administrative Procedures and Responsibilities
A.
Definition of Levels of Academic Review
1.
Throughout this section the term "department" shall mean the academic unit
which constitutes the "initial academic review committee" as defined in the
current union agreement. [In the case of the Library, the initial academic
review is constituted by all members of the library academic faculty acting as a
committee of the whole.]
2a.
No change.
2b.
In those schools or colleges having fewer than three academic departments
[and in the case of the Library], the Council on Promotions and Continuing
Appointments shall be the "subsequent academic review committee."
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Department
1.
The department chair [(i...11 the case of the Libra..ry, the Dea11 of Libia.l-y Facult-y
is understood to be the chair)] shall inform a faculty member that he/she is
being considered for a promotion and/or continuing appointment when the
porocess of assembling evidence is initiated. The chair [(Dean of Library
Faculty)] shall make sure that all evidence in the case is presented to the
members of the department as well as to the dean/provost.
2.
No change.
3.
An important datum [in the case of the teaching faculty] for the decision on
promotion and/or continuing appointment is information about how students
view the teaching of a faculty member. ...
D.
Council on Promotions and Continuing Apoointments
2.
Remove the words: "except for members of the library faculty", as well as the
last sentence of the paragraph because the information is out of date. All
library faculty cases are now transmitted to the Executive Vice President for
Academic Affairs.
3.
Remove the sentences: "In the case of members of the library faculty, the Vice
President for Academic Planning and Development shall review the case and
transmit all materials to the President along with his/her recommendation.
Copies of the recommendation shall be forwarded to the University Libraries
Director and the candidate."
With the above changes, these two sentences are unncessary.
