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UNIVERSITY PROMOTIONS COMMITTEE (UPC)
The UPC meets in early fall to elect a chair and
secretary, as needed for documentation distribution, and at length in spring
to evaluate applications and make recommendations.
Some responsibilities of the
University Promotions
Committee:
- meet within the first three weeks of the
semester to elect a chair and secretary
- submit to APSCUF and Management documents
submitted to applicants along with the Candidate Data Form / Personnel
Release Form by October 1
- aid faculty members and answer questions
throughout this procedure
- committee chair collects recommendations
from department promotion committees, department chairs, and deans that
are submitted by February 1, then places the recommendations into the
application binders and arranges access to the applications and
supporting data
- examine and evaluate applications,
supporting evidence and recommendations based on the University criteria
set forth (members may also examine candidate's personnel files during
this review process with the candidate's permission)
- consider information, testimony, or other
evidence if requested by the committee
- committee chair will notify candidates of
their right to appear before the committee to provide new materials or
information since the filing deadline and/or to present their case for
promotion
- request clarification for justification of
recommendations received, if necessary, and evaluate such response
- recommend each candidate be promoted or not
based on its conclusions, and rank -- within each professional level in
numerical order -- the candidates being recommended for promotion
- rank faculty members based on a
predetermined scoring analysis
- committee chair, no later than April 1,
will submit to candidates their scaled trimmed mean values per category,
their final promotion score, their final ranking and the overall
distribution of scaled trimmed mean values per category and final
promotion scores for all candidates within each candidate's professional
rank
- upon request of a candidate within five
days of receipt, meet with candidate to review this information
- committee chair will forward the complete,
ranked-in-group list of candidates together with all recommendations and
final promotion scores to the President no later than April 15
- committee chair will meet with the
President should s/he have any questions regarding the recommendations
NOTICES
Please see
http://www.lhup.edu/apscuf/promotion.html
Important information for the chairperson of the
University Promotions Committee:
*Cheryl Reynolds and/or the circulation supervisor must have a
list of committee members and non-members (i.e., Deans,
President, etc.) who are permitted to access the files.
These people must have LHU ID to check out files.
*Files are not permitted to leave the library and must be viewed
at the tables provided next to the cabinets.
*The committee chair is responsible for removing files at the
conclusion of his or her tenure as chair.
*At the end of the process, the names of those who are permitted
to retrieve their own files must be provided to Cheryl Reynolds
and/or the circulation supervisor.
RESOURCES:
TEACHING FACULTY RATING FORM
NON-TEACHING FACULTY RATING FORM
Members of the University Promotions Committee
are:
| MEMBER |
TERM EXPIRES |
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Rick Goulet,
History/Political Science/Economics Dept. |
05/15/2011 |
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Yvette Ingram, Health
Sciences Dept. |
05/15/2011 |
| Bob Myers, English Dept. |
05/15/2011 |
| Peter Campbell, Athletics Dept. |
05/15/2011 |
| Walter Eisenhower,
Physician Studies Dept. |
05/15/2010 |
| Ralph Harnishfeger, Biology
Dept., UPC Secretary |
05/15/2010 |
| Eduardo Valerio, Dept. of Foreign
Languages, UPC Chair |
05/15/2010 |
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