Tenure for Full-Time Faculty

Tenure for Full-Time Faculty

 General guidance for all candidates:
Faculty are expected to review and adhere to the guidance in the Faculty Personnel Process Guidelines (FPPG), effective August 2022. Other resources you might find helpful include the PSC CUNY contract (https://www.psc-cuny.org/cuny-contract ) and the CUNY bylaws (http://policy.cuny.edu/bylaws). You are always welcome to contact the Office of the Provost/Faculty Services for guidance regarding policy, process and practice pertaining to your personnel actions.
 
Tenure

There is no application for tenure per se. Faculty are automotically considered for tenure as part of their 7th reappointment to their eighth year of service. Preparing for tenure consideration encompasses all the steps you would take for reappointment (updating your personnel file, submission of an action-specific form C), but also includes an additional step: the preparation of your scholarly materials for consideration by your external evaluators. These external evaluators will provide letters of assessment regarding your scholarship as it pertains to tenure; those letters will considered by the review committees as part of your personnel file.

Click HERE for CUNY Bylaws, Article VI, section 2 pertaining to Tenure.
Click HERE for a general overview of Tenure eligibility and criteria.
Click HERE for a generic  timeline for the Tenure personnel review process.
 
Up for Tenure consideration in Fall 2021?  
Click HERE for the  Memos of Guidance, Parts I and II, Fall 2022 consideration of Tenure and/or Promotion
Click HERE for the current Action Timeline, Fall 2022 consideration of Tenure

Please contact Faculty Services for more information.

Early Tenure

Like ordinary tenure, applicants for early tenure require letters from external evaluators, evidence of scholarly, teaching and service and a  tenure-focused form C.   Faculty who wish to be considered for early tenure begin the process by notifying the Provost of their intent to apply  for such consideration, copying their chair and the Manager of Faculty Services by March 15th.
 
Click HERE for CUNY Bylaws, Article VI, section 2 pertaining to Early Tenure
Click HERE for Background Information on Early Tenure (Position Paper, Bowers 2018)
Click HERE for a general overview of  Early Tenure criteria 
Click HERE for a generic outline of the Early Tenure application and  personnel review process  
 
Applying for Early Tenure consideration in Fall 2021? 
Click HERE for the Memos of Guidance, Parts I and II, Fall 2022 consideration of Tenure and/or Promotion 
Click HERE for the current Action Timeline, Fall 2021 consideration of Early Tenure

 Please contact Faculty Services for more information.

 
 
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