Promotions and Tenure

This committee shall review proposed promotions and the granting of tenure to ensure compliance with the units’ published criteria, and shall either endorse or question recommendations.

The committee shall also review adverse recommendations by departments, colleges, or other administrative units that are formally brought to its attention by individual faculty members, and shall advise the appropriate departments and colleges in such cases. In all cases considered, the committee’s formal recommendation shall be made known to all appropriate faculty and officers of the University, but unendorsed recommendations and the reasons thereof shall be made known only to the individual faculty member concerned, the department chairperson and/or dean of the college, and the Provost.

Whenever the committee discovers a violation of appropriate procedures the committee will so inform the Provost at the same time as it makes its recommendation to the Provost on the said candidate’s promotion and tenure.

The committee shall recommend to the Senate University-wide policies and procedures relating to promotion and tenure and shall advise the faculties of the colleges and departments and the President of the University on the formulations of these policies. It shall ensure that these University-wide policies and procedures are made known within each department and throughout the University, and that unit criteria are roughly comparable throughout the University.

No individual serving on this committee may vote on candidates from his or her own department or participate in the discussion of such candidates. No individual may serve on this committee during the same year in which s/he serves on a college-level promotion and tenure committee. This committee shall consist of four tenured professors, two tenured associate professors, and one Continuing Track faculty member at the rank of associate professor or higher.

The Continuing Track faculty member will be fully involved in deliberations and voting on all matters pertaining to Continuing Track faculty. Two of the six tenured faculty members shall be from the College of Arts and Sciences. At least one member of the committee shall be a woman and at least one member shall be a man. No administrative officers (including department chairs) should be appointed to serve on this committee.

Chair: Chandra Reedy

Committee Members:

Beth Morling
morling@udel.edu
302-831-8377
Psychological & Brain Sciences
2021 Continuing Track Professor

Chandra Reedy
clreedy@udel.edu
302-831-8238
Biden School of Public Policy and Administration
2021 Professor

Nii Attoh Okine
okine@udel.edu
302-831-4532
Civil & Environmental Engineering
2021  Professor

Adam Wallace
afw@udel.edu
302-831-2569
Geological Sciences
2021  Associate Professor

Jules Bruck
jbruck@udel.edu
302-831-1373
Plant and Soil Sciences
2022  Professor

Edgard Sankara
esankara@udel.edu
302-831-2589
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
2022  Associate Professor

Nancy Getchell
getchell@udel.edu
302-831-6682
Kinesiology and Applied Physiology
2022  Professor