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Home > Faculty > Academic Recruitment & Hiring : Tenured Hires

Tenured Hires

General Statement

Initial appointments with indefinite tenure may only be made at the rank of associate professor or professor. Such appointments may be made only after receiving the recommendation of the regular faculty holding indefinite tenure in the academic unit concerned (Regents Policy: Faculty Tenure, Section 9) .

Governing Documents

• Regents Policy: Faculty Tenure
• Administrative Procedure: Procedures for Reviewing Candidates for Tenure and/or Promotion: Tenure-Track and Tenured Faculty

External hires of faculty with tenure often require that units be able to make offers quickly outside of the regular timelines for tenure and/or promotion reviews. The unit conducts the initial review of the outside hire based on a dossier that its head assembles. Contents of tenured-hire dossiers in CLA are identified below.

The unit takes (1) a vote regarding whether to hire the faculty member, in which all tenured or tenure-track faculty in the unit may participate; and, as appropriate, (2) a vote to recommend tenure, in which all tenured members of the faculty are eligible to vote, and (3) a vote to recommend the rank of professor, in which only full professors may vote. Following the unit votes, the unit head or designated faculty member writes a report of the votes and the recommendation for tenure and rank. The unit head writes a separate recommendation.

Supporting Documentation

Appointments involving the conferral of tenure require the preparation of a dossier similar to those prepared in a faculty promotion case. These dossiers may be abbreviated in length in comparison to the typical dossier of a faculty member who is considered for tenure and/or promotion through internal processes. All materials in a tenured-hire dossier must be included in the primary material; tenured-hire dossiers do not include a separate, supplementary file. Units should submit one copy of the required documentation listed below, along with a completed academic hiring authorization form

Electronic Submission

As an alternative, units may submit the required materials electronically, via the Projects Drive (Network Drive P:). If the file is submitted electronically, units are asked to organize the materials into sections roughly comparable to the outline below. Materials should be in common, readily accessible formats (e.g., pdf, docx, html).

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Required Documentation

A. Table of Contents

B. Letter of Application

C. Curriculum Vitae

D. Teaching

1. Teaching Statement
2. Documentation of Successful Teaching
3. Course Syllabi, etc.

D. Research/Creative Work

1. Research Statement
2. Description of the Relative Stature of Journals and Book Publishers, or Venues or other Outlets for Creative Work

E. External Evaluations

1. List of external evaluators and their credentials
2. Description of how the external evaluators were selected
3. Sample letter of solicitation
4. Evaluators' curricula vitae (short versions)
5. Letters from external evaluators (no fewer than three; three to five are preferred)

F. Publications/Evidence of Creative Work

1. Four to six publications are recommended, additional publications or other evidence of scholarly work may be requested later.
2. Publications should be in a readily accessible format (e.g., pdf, doc, html)

G. Unit Report

1. Statement of unit procedures
2. Unit recommendation
3. Vote of the tenured faculty
4. Majority evaluation
5. Minority evaluation (if any)

H. Unit Head Report & Recommendation

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