The standards and expectations of academic performance for candidates for tenure and promotion are detailed in Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure Criteria and Procedures for the University Libraries (Revised September 2000), a document approved by the Libraries Faculty and the Office of Academic Affairs. The full document should be consulted for details of policy and procedure. The portion of Section VI. REVIEWS FOR PROMOTION AND TENURE AND FOR PROMOTION that deal with expectations and criteria follows:

Each faculty member has an essential role in fulfilling the mission of the Libraries and the University. Tenure and promotion are an incentive, an acknowledgment, and a reward for sustained contributions to that mission. Both are earned after a record of meritorious accomplishments and the judgement of peers within the context of University policies and rules.

Reviews for tenure and promotion will take into account the diversity of librarianship/teaching, scholarship, and service that support the mission of the University Libraries. In all cases, the goal of tenure and promotion is to identify, retain, and promote individuals who have a proven and continuing pattern of achievement in librarianship/teaching, scholarship, and service.

A. Criteria

Promotion to the rank of associate professor with tenure. The awarding of tenure and promotion to the rank of associate professor is based on a strong record of growth and achievement in the field of librarianship and accomplishments in scholarship consistent with the mission of the Libraries. In addition, involvement in professional service is expected. There must also be indications that this level of achievement will continue. Faculty tenured at the rank of assistant professor who believe that they have met the criteria for promotion to associate professor are encouraged to present their cases for promotion in accordance with the above criteria.

Promotion to the rank of professor. Professors should serve as role models and mentors. Promotion to the rank of professor requires a record of sustained excellence in librarianship and of quality scholarship and service that is nationally and/or internationally recognized and consistent with the mission of the Libraries. There must also be indications that this level of achievement will continue.