1. Composition
The IHS PC will be comprised of individuals at or above the rank that the applicant is seeking. Because there are no tenured faculty in IHS this committee will be called the Promotion Committee (PC). Due to the interdisciplinary nature of IHS diversity, equity, and inclusion should be considered in making appointments to the unit PC. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of IHS, the committee will most likely include members from other departments/schools in CHSP or across the university that best reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the candidate seeking promotion.
- All voting members must be at the same or higher academic rank as that being requested by the candidate.
- A faculty member who may have a conflict of interest with a candidate should recuse himself/herself as a reviewer (see Faculty Handbook for details on matters of recusal).
- Whenever the committee cannot be populated with members from IHS and CHSP, additional members from Ohio University faculty members external to the College may be appointed to the PC by the Chair of IHS and/or Dean as appropriate.
- Any faculty member on the promotion committee under consideration for promotion will be prohibited from being present during any discussion of any cases at their considered faculty track level.
- For clinical and instructional faculty an ad-hoc voting committee will be convened with a majority of the voting members being from the candidate’s faculty track, who have the understanding of the interdisciplinary nature of the faculty in IHS and are at the applicant's rank or higher.
2. Procedures
The PC will complete a thorough review of the documents that will be forwarded to the PTAC. lt is the role of the PC chair to ensure that the discussion reflects contributions from each PC member. The Chair of the PC is responsible for providing the Dean with a written summary of discussions for each candidate along the resulting vote.
The meeting devoted to candidate reviews will occur during the Fall term and the candidate seeking promotion will receive notification from the IHS chair no later that the last day of fall semester exams.