Faculty Personnel: Procedures and Forms

This page contains links to procedures, sample documents, and forms for the following consultation/reviews: performance consultation of probationary faculty; performance review and decision of probationary faculty; mandatory tenure decision; promotion to professor; annual face-to-face reviews of faculty; and merit procedures for faculty.  It is designed for department chairs, deans, constituency committee members, and other administrative personnel who are involved in:  the annual review of tenure-track faculty; tenure-track faculty who are applying for promotion and tenure; faculty who are applying for promotion to Professor; and departmental Merit Committee members.   Faculty who are applying for promotion and tenure or promotion to Professor should consult the UW-Whitewater Purple Book web site for information regarding policies and procedures.

The policies governing reappointment of Probationary Faculty are found primarily in the University Handbook, Section VI-F, Chapter III, C, 4, Rules Governing Faculty Appointments Under UWS 3.

Probationary Faculty:

• Schedule of Consultations and Reappointment Reviews of Probationary Faculty
  
  
• Timeline for Consultations, Performance Reviews, and Promotions

Performance Consultation of Probationary Faculty

• Annual List of Performance Data
  
  
• Notice of Consultation-Sample
  
  
• Record of Consultation Form
  

Reappointment Review and Decision of Probationary Faculty

• Annual List of Performance Data
  
  
• Notification Procedures
  
  
• Notice of Performance Review and Decision-Sample
  
  
• Record of Review: Narrative Assessment-Sample
  
  
• Record of Department Decision: Narrative Assessment-Sample
  
  
• Record of Review-3-point Numeric Scale-Sample
  
  
• Record of Department Decision: 3-point Scale-Sample
  
  Record of Review: 5-point Numeric Scale-Sample
  
  
• Record of Department Decision: 5-point Scale-Sample
  
  
• Record of Review-Terminal Contract-Sample
  
  
• Record of Department Decision: Terminal Contract-Sample

Tenure:

Mandatory Tenure Review of Probationary Faculty

• Mandatory and Early Tenure Decisions: General Information
  
  
• Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure: Procedures
  
  
• Notice of Review: Mandatory Tenure Decision-Sample
  
  
• Record of Review-Mandatory Tenure Decision-Sample
  
  
• Department Decision: Mandatory Tenure Review-Sample

Promotion:

Promotion to Professor

• Promotion to Professor: Procedures
  
  
• Guidelines for preparation of the Purple Book - Promotion to Professor
  
  
• Notice of Review-Sample

Post-Tenure Review

• Post-Tenure Review: Procedures and Form

Annual Face-to-Face Review

• Procedures for Face-to-Face Review
  
  
• Form

Merit

• Procedures for Merit: Faculty

Other:

• Educational Codes defined
  
  
• Checksheet for faculty and administrators