Tenured/Tenure-Track Recruitment & Hiring

Typically, initial appointments are for four academic years. The comprehensive review typically occurs during the fourth year of full-time service and focuses on focuses upon whether or not the candidate is making normal progress toward meeting or exceeding the university standard for tenure. Upon successful reappointment, the mandatory promotion and tenure review (usually in the seventh year of appointment) focuses on whether or not the candidate has attained the university standard for tenure. These reviews can be delayed due to certain types of leaves (see Section III of the university standard for tenure.  

The process begins in the Spring/Summer for recruitment for the following Fall by way of hiring proposals, which are approved by the dean of the college, followed by final approval by the Office of the Provost.