PTYS/LPL P&T Overview and Timeline

PTYS/LPL P&T Overview and Timeline

Schedules for third-year retention review and 6th year mandatory review are outlined in faculty offer letters.

UArizona Promotion and Tenure Policies

The University Handbook for Appointed Personnel (UHAP) provides policies for personnel procedures. Promotion procedures for tenure and career-track faculty (nontenure-eligible) are covered by Chapter 3.3.  See also the UArizona Human Resources policy on promotion and tenure.

Overview of Promotion Review Process

In the Spring semester, the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs sends out a memo to all faculty officially launching the promotional process. LPL Academic Manager will also notify you of any upcoming/required reviews. Candidates and members of LPL P&T Committee should review the updated submission and review process. It is important to closely adhere to the guidance to help maintain a high level of rigor in the reviews and to avoid any disruption of the promotion review process.

Promotion Workshops

The Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs conducts annual promotion workshops in the spring. Workshop presentations cover topics such as: Going Up for Full, Preparing for Promotion on the Career Track, Making a Statement for Promotion, and Teaching and Outreach Portfolios that Document Impact, Innovation, and Leadership. It is highly recommended that candidates and committee members participate in the trainings.

Peer Review of Teaching

Each type of course (undergraduate, graduate, GenEd) taught by a promotion-eligible faculty member must have a classroom visit by a tenured PTYS faculty member or, for General Education undergraduate classes, a Professor of Practice. See the PTYS/LPL Policy for Peer Review of Teaching.

IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS YOU SHOULD REVIEW EARLY IN YOUR CAREER AS A FACULTY MEMBER
Departmental P&T Timeline (subject to change depending on availability of the P&T Committee and other schedules)
  • Confirm Candidates – March o Note that P&T schedules are dictated by the year of hire. For example, faculty hired in academic year 2023 would submit a third-year review dossier in June 2025 and mandatory tenure dossier would be submitted in June 2028.
  • Preparation of dossier by candidates: March – mid-June. Note that dossiers not requiring external reviews may have more time before submitting to department.
  • Candidate delivers dossier to the department: mid-June
    • Candidates should submit their dossier to LPL Manager for Academic Affairs at least at least 2 weeks in advance of the deadline for review and feedback.
    • At time of submitting dossier, candidate provides to the Academic Manager/Committee a list of 3 to 5 potential outside independent evaluators (no collaboration within the last 5 years) + a list of potential collaborators who could be asked to provide letters.
  • Letters requesting review are sent to external evaluators – June
  • External letters are due to committee: late August 
  • P&T Committee meets to discuss letters and make assignments – late August, early September
  • Departmental Committee letters completed and available to faculty – early October
  • LPL Faculty Meeting discussion/vote of dossiers – early October
  • Dossier delivered to Dean’s Office: October 15
  • College Committee Review and Letter: October 16 – December 14
  • Dean’s Review and Letter: December 15 – January 13
  • Dossiers due in Office of the Provost: January 15
  • University Committee Review and Letter: January – April
  • Provost’s letters of decision sent to candidates: Last week of April