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Provost's Memo to Deans and Academic Department Heads

Date: April 29, 2010
To: Deans and Academic Department Heads
From: Warwick A. Arden, Interim Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor
Subject: Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure (RPT), 2010-2011

This memorandum provides notification of the Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure schedule and expectations for the 2010-2011 RPT cycle.  Dossiers are due to my office per the following college specific schedule.  Please submit to Amy Jinnette, 201 Holladay Hall.

Staggered Deadlines:

January 10, 2011 – Design, Education, Management, Natural Resources, Textiles, Veterinary Medicine

January 18, 2011 – Humanities and Social Sciences, Physical and Mathematical Sciences

January 24, 2011 – Agriculture and Life Sciences, Engineering

The process details and all related policies, regulations and rules are available on the RPT Web site.

As a reminder, the mandatory changes from last year will be included in the revised REG 05.20.20   RPT Dossier Format Requirements to be posted soon.  Here's an overview of the changes:

  • include dissertation title and name of major professor in your brief resume
  • including submitted work that is in review in the scholarship section is now permitted, but must be clearly designated as such
  • include a Research Administration Data and Reporting System (RADAR) report of your grant activity.

Each college will receive an electronic summary of all the mandatory cases broken down by department on or before June 1, 2010.  Corrections and any anticipated non-mandatory cases should be added to the summary and returned to Amy Jinnette by August 2, 2010.  Additional non-mandatory cases can be added until January 3, 2011.

Thank you for your diligence in this important process.

cc:        W. Randolph Woodson, William Adler, Betsy E. Brown, Mo A. Gabr, Terri L. Lomax, Margery F. Overton, James J. Zuiches, RPT Process Administrators