Appointment, Promotion & Tenure Guidelines
- General Information includes information about faculty recruitment, faculty appointments, promotion, and tenure, reviews, compensation and pay, conduct and external activities, retirement, leaves, faculty recognition and policies by school.
- Appointment, promotion, and tenure guidelines (including promotion guidelines for fixed-term faculty) for each school or college at the university are on the Academic Personnel website.
- The Post Tenure Review Process [PDF] promotes faculty development, ensures faculty productivity and provides accountability. The post-tenure review process should respect the basic principles of academic freedom. Post-tenure review does not abrogate, in any way, the due process criteria or procedures for dismissal or other disciplinary action established under the Trustee Policies and Regulations Governing Academic Tenure [PDF].
- Faculty Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure includes definitions of tenure-track and fixed-term faculty titles.
- Faculty Designation contains information about the designation of regular, fixed-term, and special-appointed regular graduate faculty.
- Fixed-Term Appointments includes information about faculty progression to a higher rank, initial appointments, appointment renewal, and visiting faculty appointments. See also The Promotion Process and Criteria for Fixed-Term Faculty Members on the Academic Personnel page on Faculty Policies, Procedures and Guidelines.
- Postdoctoral Scholars Policy outlines appointment, performance evaluation, compensation and grievance procedures for post-doctoral scholars.
- Rights of Special Faculty Members outlines appointment procedures for both paid and unpaid visiting faculty members, adjunct faculty, lecturers, artists-in-residence, writers-in-residence or other special categories. [Original link is gone. This resource needs to be found and will be re-linked]
- Standard Order Tables includes information about review levels for personnel decisions, required documents for tenured track, tenured and fixed-term faculty, documents for temporary appointments, and the dossier submission schedule.
- Tenure/Tenure Track Appointments includes information about tips for promotion and tenure, dossier review format, extending the tenure clock, promotions, reappointments (assistant and associate), and the APT process.
- Tenure Policies and Regulations Governing Academic Tenure in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [PDF] are the policies and regulations adopted by the Board of Trustees that address academic freedom, tenure, promotion and procedures for suspension, demotion and discharge.
