Reappointment, Tenure, and Promotion
Personnel Committee (FPC)
- Faculty Personnel Committee – Makes recommendations to the president in matters of reappointment, tenure, and promotion. The committee is composed of the president and the dean of the faculty, ex officio, and seven elected members of the faculty.
For Evaluators
- Peer Review of Teaching – The Committee on Teaching and Learning developed recommendations for peer review of teaching in collaboration with the Faculty Personnel Committee.
- Letters on behalf of colleagues submission form
- Student Evaluation Letters – An important part of the personnel process.
For Candidates
- Calendar of Personnel Actions: For the official dates on personnel actions, please be sure to consult the faculty handbook.
- Selecting Faculty Evaluators (PDF): A pdf guide to selecting faculty evaluators for candidates.
- The Second Year Review: All faculty on an initial four-year tenure track appointment participate in a formative assessment in the fall of their second year at Bates.
- Peer Review of Teaching: The Committee on Teaching and Learning developed recommendations for peer review of teaching in collaboration with the Faculty Personnel Committee.
Mentoring for mentors and mentees
Faculty Mentoring Guide – Information and resources for faculty mentors and mentees.
Faculty Recognition Program
The Dean of Faculty’s Office recognizes and celebrates outstanding teaching and scholarship at meaningful moments in the career of faculty members: promotion, tenure, and retirement.
- Information and Recent Recipient Book Selections
- Endowed Professorships. Bates has more than 30 endowed professorships to honor exceptional teaching faculty.
- Faculty Profiles – Create a profile of scholarly work.
- Updating a profile
- Faculty Remembrances – We offer remembrances and memorial minutes for our colleagues who are recently deceased.
Retirement
We seek to support our faculty over the course of their careers and are grateful their association with Bates continues once they retire.