PROMOTION, TENURE, SABBATICAL OBJECTIVE CRITERIA

WHEREAS, The Board of Trustees in its Annual Meeting of April 20, 2002 took note that it encourages faculty development and high achievement, annually reviews recommendations from the University's Promotion, Tenure, and Severance Committee, and takes appropriate action on candidates for promotion, tenure, and sabbaticals; and

WHEREAS, The University's Promotion, Tenure, and Severance Committee was asked at that same meeting to develop, in concert with Faculty of Lincoln University, specific criteria for the evaluation of teaching, scholarship, and University and Community service for the purposes of faculty promotion and tenure; and

WHEREAS, The Board required that the promotion, tenure, and sabbatical criteria include a formula, which clearly and consistently quantifies the relative weights of teaching, scholarship, and service that must be used in the recommendation for promotion and tenure; and

WHEREAS, The criteria and evaluation system should take into consideration the mission and goals of Lincoln University; and

WHEREAS, The criteria and evaluation system serving as the template for recommendations by the University's Promotion, Tenure, and Severance Committee should be reviewed and updated prior to the Committee's review of faculty candidates for promotions, tenure, and sabbaticals and the submission of those recommendations to the Trustees, and

WHEREAS, The Board of Trustees resolved that any future action on promotion, tenure, and sabbatical recommendations would be contingent on the successful completion of the review; and

WHEREAS, The University's Promotion, Tenure, and Severance Committee led an extensive faculty dialogue and development of a proposed criteria and evaluation system for promotions, tenure, and sabbaticals that incorporates a formula that clearly and consistently quantifies the relative weights of teaching, scholarship, and service; and

WHEREAS, The proposed criteria and evaluation system for promotions, tenure, and sabbaticals has been formally adopted by the Lincoln University Faculty at its meeting of January 30, 2003 and endorsed by the President and Academic Administration; now, therefore be it

RESOLVED, That the proposed criteria and evaluation system, serving as the template for recommendations by the University's Promotion, Tenure, and Severance Committee for promotion, tenure, and sabbatical decisions, be approved by the Board of Trustees of Lincoln University; and be it further

RESOLVED, That the criteria and evaluation system be reviewed after a period of not greater than five years.