FACULTY HANDBOOK VOTING RESTRICTIONS
1. Sections Relating Exclusively to Tenure-Stream Faculty
Eligibility to vote on matters affecting procedures or criteria for tenure or promotion to Associate Professor or Professor (3.11, App. A Sup. IV.B.3), or affecting procedures or criteria for hiring tenure-stream faculty (3.2.2.1), are restricted to those Faculty Senate members who are tenured or eligible for tenure.
The sections of the Faculty Handbook that pertain exclusively to tenure-stream faculty are listed below.
Faculty Handbook
| 2.11.1 | University Committee on Rank & Tenure |
| 2.11.2 | College and School Committees on Rank & Tenure |
| 3.1.1 | Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty |
| 3.2.2.1 | [Appointment Procedures] Tenure-Track and Tenured Faculty* |
| 3.3.1 | Mid-Probationary Review |
| 3.4 | Policies on Promotion and Tenure |
| 3.5.3.1 | [Non-Reappointment] Probationary Faculty Members |
| 3.5.5.3.2 | [Termination of Contract] Termination of Tenured Faculty by Reason of Financial Exigency |
| 3.7.2 | [Faculty Development and Research] Junior Faculty Development Leaves |
| 3.9.2.2 | [Sanction and Dismissal] Dismissal of Tenured Faculty Member |
Appendix A Supplement (Faculty Senate Elections Rules and Procedures)
| II.B.1 | University and college rank and tenure committee member terms |
| IV.B.3 | University and college committees on rank and tenure eligibility to vote |
| V.A.2 | University and college committees on rank and tenure eligibility to serve |
| V.B.1 | University Rank and Tenure Committee qualification synopsis |
| V.B.2 | College Rank and Tenure Committee qualification synopsis |
| V.D.4 | Rank and Tenure Committee ineligibility |
| V.D.6 | College Rank and Tenure Committee orderly continuity |
| VI.A | [Sequence of Elections] University and College Rank and Tenure Committees |
Endorsed by Faculty Senate, June 13, 2025
Approved by Board of Trustees, August 26, 2025
* This section has its own rule excluding non-tenure-track faculty from evaluating and ranking candidates and making recommendations for the hire, unless they serve on the original search committee. If the question of non-tenure-track faculty participation is at issue in a revision of this section, all members of the Faculty Senate will be eligible to vote on the amendment.