Provost’s Advisory Committee on Promotion and Tenure adds 6 members
SU’s Provost’s Advisory Committee on Promotion and Tenure announced six newly elected members who will assist SU’s executive team in managing cases. Typically, cases with substantial disagreement are reviewed by the committee. Lola Jean Carpio | Contributing Photographer
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Syracuse University’s Provost’s Advisory Committee on Promotion and Tenure announced its six newly elected members in a Tuesday release. The committee will assist SU’s Chancellor’s Executive Team in managing faculty tenure and promotion cases.
The following faculty members have been elected to the committee:
- Jaime Banks, School of Information Studies
- Jean-François Bédard, School of Architecture
- Lisa Dolak, College of Law
- Peng Gao, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
- James Hougland, College of Arts and Sciences
- Dawn Johnson, School of Education
Faculty tenure or promotion cases that have “substantial” disagreement between reviewers or cases that will most likely result in a rejection are reviewed by the committee, according to the release.
University Senate’s appointment and promotions and agenda committees conduct the advisory committee elections. Tenured faculty and those on the tenure track are eligible to vote for advisory committee members, according to the release.
After the faculty vote, the chairperson of the appointment and promotions committee presents SU Vice Chancellor and Provost Lois Agnew with a list of three candidates from each electorate. From there, Agnew chooses the new committee members.
Agnew, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Jamie Winders and Vice President for Research Duncan Brown help lead the committee, according to the release. Committee members offer advisory notes to Agnew but do not officially issue reports or review appeals, the release states.
Individual cases are reviewed by seven of the 12 committee members, who are chosen based on their closeness to the petitioning faculty members’ disciplines. However, there will also be members who have not been involved in the cases’ promotion process.
“The Advisory Committee’s advice is intended to balance comparable excellence across the schools and colleges with the need to support the specific excellence of each,” SU’s website states.
