Mandate
The Committee on Tenure and Promotions makes recommendations, as required, on Faculty and University policy concerning tenure and promotions. It liaises with the Senate Committee on Tenure and Promotions to confirm the list of tenure and/or promotion candidates scheduled for consideration, ensures that timelines are maintained and makes regular reports to Council on the disposition of files by category.
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2025-2026 Meeting Dates
Meetings take place on Tuesdays from 9:30am to 11:30am (typically the last Tuesday of the Month with exceptions *noted below)
- Tuesday, September 30, 2025
- Tuesday, October 28, 2025
- Tuesday, November 25, 2025
- Tuesday, December 16, 2025*
- Tuesday, January 27, 2026
- Tuesday, February 24, 2026
- Tuesday, March 31, 2026
- Tuesday, April 28, 2026
- Tuesday, May 26, 2026
The Faculty Committee on Tenure and Promotions, when augmented by two members from the Senate Committee on Tenure and Promotions, acts as a Review Committee and is constituted as a sub-committee of the Senate Committee on Tenure and Promotions. Acting as a review committee, it will evaluate the recommendations of School/Department Adjudicating Committees to ensure that procedures set out have been followed and that the criteria used in the evaluation of files have been applied fairly and in accordance with University criteria. When the committee determines that the procedures have been followed in all material respects, that the appropriate criteria have been fairly applied and that the judgment of the Adjudicating Committee concerning application of University criteria is correct, it will concur in the judgment and forward the file to the President. When the committee determines that procedures have not been followed and/or that the appropriate criteria have not been fairly applied, it shall send the file back to the Adjudicating Committee and require that proper procedures be followed and the file be reconsidered with the criteria fairly applied.
If a member of the review committee has considered a file as a member of an adjudication committee, they shall not take part in consideration of the file at the review level.
The committee will be comprised of:
- One member elected from each of the Faculty’s schools/department (two year term, renewable). The majority of members shall be tenured.
- Two members of the Senate Committee on Tenure & Promotions.
- Two student representatives (one-year term, renewable). Student representatives can be undergraduate and/or graduate level students. One of each is preferred.
- The Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs and Inclusiveness (ex-officio, non-voting) or another Associate Dean as designate, whose role is to provide advice on process as needed.