Office of the Provost

Tenured Promotions Committee

The Tenured Promotions Committee (TPC) is a standing committee that reviews promotions from (tenured) associate professor to full professor, and appointments at the full professor rank where the faculty member has held tenure at another institution.

The TPC is composed of seven tenured full professors. The tenured faculty of each Academic School elects one member to the committee, resulting in four elected members. The remaining three members of the committee are chosen by the Provost in consultation with the Faculty Senate and the Academic Deans. No more than two members from each Academic School can serve on the committee at any given time. One member shall serve as chair, selected each year by the members of the committee.

Members serve a three-year term and may be elected or appointed to a second term. However, the terms of the initial members of the committee shall include two one-year terms, two two-year terms, and three three-year terms, in order to create staggered terms going forward. After completing their service on the committee, a member is not eligible to serve again until two academic years have elapsed. Members of the committee will receive compensation for their service, scaled to the level of activity of the committee. The names of the committee members are in the public domain.

The full committee shall vote on each case brought before it. However, any member from the department of the candidate under consideration must recuse themself from participation in the case. The committee shall establish three-person subcommittees to present each case to the full committee and to draft the committee’s report; subcommittee membership shall be held in confidence.

More information is available in Section V of the Faculty Handbook.

Committee Members (2024-25)