New Members Elected to Provost’s Advisory Committee on Promotion and Tenure

Six faculty members have been elected to serve on the Provost’s Advisory Committee on Promotion and Tenure. Elections were held in Fall 2024.

Serving as Universitywide faculty representatives, 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. Members, who must be tenured full professors, serve two-year, staggered terms and are not eligible to serve consecutive terms.

Newly elected committee members are:

• Dympna Callaghan, William Safire Professor of Modern Letters and University Professor, College of Arts and Sciences
• Qinru Qiu, director, electrical engineering and computer science graduate program, College of Engineering and Computer Science
• Merril Silverstein, Marjorie Cantor Professor of Aging Studies, Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics
• Aileen Gallagher, associate dean for academic affairs, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
• Natarajan Balasubramanian, Albert & Betty Hill Endowed Professor, Martin J. Whitman School of Management
• Emily Stokes-Rees, Iris Magidson Endowed Professor of Design Leadership and director, School of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts

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.