Appointments with Tenure

Associate Professors, Agents with Tenure, Professors and Senior Agents

Submit an electronic copy of the original APT Dossier to the APT website managed by the Office of Faculty Affairs.
New appointments at the rank of Professor and Associate Professor with tenure and Principal and Senior Agent with tenure must be reviewed by faculty committees and administrators at all levels. No offer of appointment at the rank of Associate Professor, Professor, Senior Agent or Principal Agent (regardless of tenure status) is valid without presidential approval. (New Assistant Professor and Agent appointments are not handled by the University APT process.)
Prior to final approval of the President, a letter of intent to hire may be sent after gaining approval of the appointment from the hiring Department's Dean(s). Refer to the Sample Letters of Intent to Hire for a template of such an appointment letter.
New appointments may be submitted at any time. (However, during summer and winter breaks the processing of cases is often slower due to the unavailability of campus APT members.) All requests for new appointments must be accompanied by the New Faculty Appointment Information form that provides the information necessary for presidential approval of the appointment.
Dossiers for new appointments look different from the dossiers of candidates being promoted from within. They lack a Summary of Personal Achievements and a Personal Statement. They should, however, contain as much information as possible on the candidate’s performance or potential performance as a teacher, mentor, and advisor, as well as on the candidate’s scholarship. External letters of evaluation should be solicited from reviewers suggested by the candidate and from reviewers suggested by the Department. For tenure cases, it is essential that the question of tenure be addressed, both in the departmental APT report and in the external letters. Letters soliciting recommendations for a new tenured appointment should pose the question of whether the candidate merits a tenured appointment. This is especially important if the candidate does not currently hold tenure at an academic institution.
For additional information about processing new appointments through the APT review process, see the APT Guidelines.
For information about new joint appointments, see the Information for Faculty Administrators section in the APT Guidelines.
Upon Presidential approval, the faculty member and appropriate academic administrators should complete an Appointment Agreement.
Faculty members with a 9-month appointment (22 pay periods) who wish to have their academic salaries paid over a 12-month period (26 pay periods) must complete appropriate documentation.
The department's ARS creator needs to create and route an Academic Resource System (ARS) appointment.