University of Wisconsin Colleges

Department of Mathematics

Department Bylaws

Appendix G

Tenured Faculty Review and Development

The Department of Mathematics shall conduct a program for tenured faculty review and development that is in compliance with the UW Colleges' tenured faculty review and development policies. (Senate #35) The department interprets the intent of this policy as a program which will emphasize assisting tenured faculty in planning instructional and professional development activities as well as exploring ways to implement these plans. The approach of the department will be that the review and development conferences should be a positive, gainful experience for everyone involved in the process.

A. Departmental guidelines for scheduling review and development conferences.

1. The Executive Committee will prepare a five-year schedule for review and development conferences for all tenured faculty. Each tenured faculty member's name will be listed in one of the five yearly schedules. Each yearly schedule will contain approximately one-fifth of the tenured members of the department, that is, normally between 18% and 22% of the tenured faculty. The conference schedule will be updated annually by April 15.

2. Those faculty members for whom the period of time since their last review (i.e. tenure/promotion) is longest shall be given priority consideration for earlier review.

3. Each year, the Executive Committee will make any necessary adjustment in the schedule of conferences to insure that each tenured faculty member will be reviewed once in each five-year period following the initiation of the first conferences.

B. The department chair's responsibilities.

1. By May 1, the department chair will notify those tenured faculty members who will be scheduled for review the subsequent year. The annual current schedule of conferences will be distributed to affected department each year by the chair.

2. The department chair will schedule the face-to-face conferences which will involve the faculty member, the department chair (except in cases when the department chair is the tenured faculty member being reviewed) and the campus dean.

3. The department chair has responsibility for promoting the linkage between faculty development and faculty review.

C. Review of the department chair.

When the review conference of the department chair occurs, the Executive Committee will appoint one of its members to attend the face-to-face conference and write the report.

D. Five-year files.

1. Each tenured department faculty member is responsible for maintaining a file that reflects the most recent five years of faculty development activities. These should primarily include faculty activity reports and merit review letters. The five-year files may include other materials that are reflective of the faculty member's development activities.

2. Faculty members are encouraged to include plans and goals for future development activities in their five-year files.