The University Committee on Promotions and Tenure

1. The committee shall receive, consider, and confer with the Provost and with the initiating unit on any proposed new statement or criteria for promotion or on any proposed changes in existing statements. No statement or revision shall become effective until approved by the Committee and the Provost. ("Minimum Standards for Promotion" and "Departmental Responsibilities" described earlier.)
2. In addition, the committee receives from the deans and directors all promotion dossiers and makes a recommendation about each. In reviewing applications for promotion, the committee judges the relevance and appropriateness of the credentials offered to support the request for promotion. In doing so, the committee exercises its best judgment as to the adequacy of the evidence in meeting the unit's published criteria.
   Following its review, the committee will forward the dossier, together with its recommendations to the Provost and will notify the candidate, the department committee, the department chairperson, and the dean or director of its recommendation and the reasons for it.
3. The committee, in the course of its reviews of applications and the criteria statements applicable to them, may discover deficiencies in the statements. It shall communicate such inadequacies to the Provost and to the unit and shall assist in the satisfactory amendment of the statement.