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Faculty Affairs

The Faculty Affairs office provides assistance to the Provost with respect to a range of individual faculty matters including appointments, reappointments, tenure, promotion, secondary and joint appointments, and leaves. The Office represents the Provost's priorities and provides administrative oversight for confidential University faculty evaluations and review processes. This includes the activities of the Provost's Advisory Committees on Appointment, Promotion and Tenure; Distinguished Professorships; and Bass Fellows and Chairs.

Some other responsibilities of the Faculty Affairs office include:

  • handling special assignments for the Provost involving research, analysis, and writing;
  • interpreting and, as applicable, implementing University policies concerning faculty;
  • maintaining faculty records;
  • serving as a liaison for deans, departments chairs, faculty, and University academic and administrative officers (i.e., the Faculty Ombudsman and the Faculty Hearing Committee) and their staffs with regard to the above issues;

Contacts:

Robert M. Russell , Assistant to the Provost

Mary Nettleton, Staff Assistant

 
 
 

Updates:

09/01/09 - As you know, the Provost asks the department or school to provide the names and e-mail/other addresses of additional "arms-length" potential evaluators—experts who are competent to review the candidate’s scholarship but who have not been approached by the department. Presently APT requires three (3) such potential evaluators. But, effective for all dossiers due November 1, 2009 and beyond, APT will require a total of six (6) such additional names.

11/24/08 - A new section on formatting dossiers is now available. Please check this section regularly for updates..

06/11/2008 - For cases coming before the Appointments, Promotions and Tenure (APT) Committee, the Provost now requires the dossier to be in Adobe Acrobat format on a CD.  This CD should be formatted to be read by computers using Windows operating systems.  (File titles should only contain alpha-numeric text.) The CD should include copies all candidate materials except publications not available digitally (e.g. books), which should be included as hard copy. 
NOTE:  Your Dean’s office may require one or more hard copies of the dossier.  Check with the Dean. 

Dossiers for candidates in non-tenure track positions may still be submitted in paper format, within a ringbinder(s), labeled on the spine to identify the candidate, with tabbed dividers separating the individual sections. Check with your Dean's office for individual School requirements.

04/03/2008 - Please check with your dean's office for their requirements regarding the number of dossiers to prepare for tenure-track reappointments.

 

 



 

 

 
 
  
 
Office of the Provost Faculty Affairs, 01 Allen Bldg, Box 90007, Durham, NC (919) 684-5949; Fax (919) 681-7135