How does a first-year faculty member participate in Annual Review?
First year faculty ordinarily do not complete the Annual Update form, although the Department should provide appropriate mentoring in the process of Annual Review in preparation for full participation in the process after the first year. However, the Chair and the tenured members of the Department must make a written recommendation to reappoint all non-tenured tenure-track faculty (Rank and Tenure Policy Statement 2.1), including first-year faculty, no earlier than the end of the first semester or the beginning of the second semester of the first year. This recommendation will be based on the Chair’s judgment (having secured the judgments of other tenured faculty) about teaching, research, and service as evidenced in the first semester.
