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Membership of the Tenure and Promotion Appeals Nominating Committee

2024-2025 (July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025)

Membership of the Tenure and Promotion Appeals Nominating Committee
NameComposition
Ron BalversFaculty of Business
Jamal DeenFaculty of Engineering
Alison HollowayFaculty of Health Sciences
Alison McQueenFaculty of Humanities
Bhagwati GuptaFaculty of Science
Saara GreeneFaculty of Social Sciences

Terms of Reference

Article IX of the Senate By-Laws states:

136.

a) The Tenure and Promotion Appeals Nominating Committee shall consist of six full-time tenured faculty members that:

(i) are normally at the rank of Professor; and

(ii) are appointed by the Senate but not necessarily drawn from the Senate with one from each of the Faculties of Business, Engineering, Health Sciences, Humanities, Science, and Social Sciences; and none of whom, during their term on the Committee, shall be a member of a Faculty Tenure and Promotion Committee or of the Senate Committee on Appointments;

b) Four members of the Committee constitute a quorum at any meeting thereof.

c) The Chair shall be elected by and from the members of the Committee.

137.

(a) When an appeal of a tenure, a continuing appointment without annual review or a permanent teaching or promotion decision has been referred to the Committee, the Committee shall nominate to the Senate the membership of an Appeal Tribunal, composed of three full-time tenured or permanent members of faculty who have not been previously involved in the decision under review and who are at arm’s length from both parties to the appeal.  The tribunal in each case shall normally consist of one member from the appellant’s Faculty and two members from outside the Faculty.

(b) Each Appeal Tribunal shall normally report to the Senate within four months of its establishment.