Six faculty members have been elected to serve on the Provost’s Advisory Committee on Promotion and Tenure.

Committee members advise the vice chancellor, provost and chief academic officer and work to ensure consistent promotion and tenure processes and promote high academic standards. They serve two-year, staggered terms and are not eligible to serve consecutive terms.

Newly elected committee members are:

• Jaime Banks, Katchmar-Wilhelm Professor, School of Information Studies
• Jean-Francois Bedard, professor, School of Architecture
• Lisa Dolak, professor, College of Law
• James Houghland, professor and director of biochemistry, College of Arts and Sciences
• Dawn Johnson, professor of higher education, School of Education
• Peng Gao, professor and chair of geography and the environment, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

Promotion and tenure cases that meet the criteria for review—for example, those that have substantial disagreement between layers of recommendation or a strong probability of a negative determination—are taken up by committee members. They offer an advisory vote to the provost but do not issue a formal report or consider appeals.

The committee is convened by Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Jamie Winders. Provost Lois Agnew is chair of the committee, and Vice President for Research Duncan Brown serves in an ex-officio capacity.