Arts and Sciences Senate Faculty Rights and
Responsibilities Policy Committee
The Arts and Sciences Senate Senior Lecturer - Promotion Review Committee (SL-PRC) was approved by the Arts and Sciences Senate at the April 23rd, 2007 meeting of the Arts and Sciences Senate.
However in the Spring 2008, it was revisited by the Senate at its final meeting of the year and was withdrawn temporarily to allow for appropriate discussion and agreement with the university administration on the status of the Senior Lecturer title. The Senate decided that it would wait for the formal establishment of the position before finalizing the Senate's role in the process of granting "promotion without tenure" from Lecturer to Senior Lecturer.
Below,
for the record only, is the document as originally approved by the Senate
in the Spring 2007.
Rationale
for the Senior Lecturer-Promotion Review Committee
The
Arts and Sciences Senate Senior Lecturer - Promotion Review Committee (SL-PRC):
(1) Establishes a component of the review process that is independent from the
Department / Program but also independent from the Dean's Office.
(2) Provides checks and balances (and comparisons) across the whole A&S
Senate Constituencies to assure just and fair grounds for promotion from
Lecturer to Senior Lecturer.
(3) Validates the promotion itself since it is evaluated by peers across
a range of disciplines in the CAS, SOJ, MSRC, SBS areas.
(4) Confirms that the promotion from Lecturer to Senior Lecturer is taken very
seriously and has significant value and legitimacy when achieved.
(5) Provides a separate review of full-time term renewable faculty appointments
(3 yrs max) in a completely separate track from tenure or tenure track faculty
who are evaluated according to different criteria.
THE
ARTS AND SCIENCES SENATE "SENIOR LECTURER - PROMOTION REVIEW COMMITTEE"
(SL-PRC)
shall
be a Standing Committee of the Arts and Sciences Senate.
It shall review all cases of promotion from Lecturer to Senior Lecturer
as recommended by Departments or Programs. Its decisions shall be submitted
to the appropriate Dean who makes a recommendation to the Provost and
President.
The SLPRC will follow specific Guidelines as formulated by the Arts and
Sciences
Senate Faculty Rights and Responsibilities Policy Committee.
The SLPRC shall include two members from each of the three areas:
(1) Humanities and Fine Arts (including Journalism), (2) Social and Behavioral
Sciences
(including Stony Brook Southampton), and (3) Natural Sciences and Math
(including the Marine Sciences Research Center). From each area, one of these
members
shall be a Senior Lecturer. In the absence of available Senior Lecturers, these
positions
shall be filled by tenured faculty members from the respective areas.