Rank Step, Review Periods

Rank, Step, Period of Service

Mid-Career Review Assistant Professors

Mid-Career Appraisal: A formal assessment of an appointee's achievement and promise for eventual promotion to tenure. It also serves to identify appointees whose records of performance and achievement are below the level of excellence desired for continued membership in the faculty. The appointee's entire record since appointment will be reviewed. This happens at the second review in the Assistant Professor rank.

Tenure Timeline

Assistant Professor to Associate Professor:

•   Assistant Professors must be either tenured or terminated by the end of the 8th year of service (24 quarters).

•   Promotion is considered normal (i.e., not accelerated or decelerated) for candidates with 7 years of service as Assistant Professor.

•   Astronomy faculty have gone up for tenure earlier in the timeline (see chart below) when their files are exceptional.

•   Mid-Career and tenure reviews are based on quarters on the “tenure clock”. Leaves or time off “clock” may impact timing of reviews. Check in with Laura Lopez in these cases.

Review Periods

• One-year gap between review period and time at rank and step. 

• The review period will always cover the year prior to when the action was effective. (this is because it takes a full academic year for the review to be analyzed and then the decision)

Example:

Associate Professor "S" is on the call for 2023-2024.

"S" is notified in May 2023 that they are on the call for a review.

Their most recent action became effective on 7/1/2022.

• Work done during 2021-2022 not captured as the review was in process. 

• The next review period will need to capture 2021-2022

Therefore the "review" period will be: 07/01/2021 - 06/30/2023      (not 7/1/2022 which was when the last action became effective)