Balloting to select faculty representatives for the Provost’s Advisory Committee on Promotion and Tenure begins Friday, Oct. 17, and runs through Friday, Oct. 31.

Elections, held annually, are administered by the University Senate Committee on Appointment and Promotions and the Agenda Committee. Results are tabulated by the Office of Institutional Effectiveness.

This year’s six vacancies are open to tenured full professors. Representatives serve two-year terms.

The Provost’s Advisory Committee on Promotion and Tenure ensures consistency of promotion and tenure processes and implementation across campus. Committee members review candidate cases and read promotion and tenure files that the Office of Academic Affairs designates as containing substantive disagreements between layers of recommendation or that have a strong possibility of negative determination. Committee members then counsel the provost but do not issue a formal report or consider appeals.

The committee is convened by the vice provost for faculty affairs and includes the vice president for research (or another full professor designated by the provost) plus 12 faculty representatives from each of the schools and colleges.

All tenured and tenure-track faculty members are eligible to vote for representatives from their school or college. Eligible voters will receive ballot information via email from the University Senate on the first day of balloting.