Search

faculty, such as evaluative material prepared by colleagues and others, is not normally maintained in the faculty member’s personnel file. Such material may be placed in faculty files maintained by the president, the provost, the dean of the member’s school or division, and/or the chair of the faculty member’s department. This material is not subject to regular access by the faculty member. A faculty member who is concerned about confidential information in their faculty file should contact the

The following are the internal operating procedures of the Rank and Tenure Committee in effect at the time this Handbook was published. Revisions are made periodically by the committee and are on file in the Office of the Provost.Section 1. CONSIDERATION FOR TENURE Initiating Consideration for Tenure The provost provides a list of faculty in their sixth qualifying year of service, including credit toward tenure for service elsewhere. All these are automatically considered, subject to the terms

Section 1. BACKGROUND Copyright law, current thinking and practice related to intellectual property rights, and even local computer use policies are constantly changing. Given this swirl of law, practice, and policy, engaging in scholarly or instructional activity while maintaining academic integrity and respecting the property of others can be quite a challenge, indeed. An exhaustive statement on copyright law is not possible here, so some general concepts and rules of thumb are presented

PLU encourages faculty to apply for grants, fellowships, and other funding sources that support professional development. This funding can augment existing programs, create new programmatic activities, bolster institutional capacity, and foster faculty-student scholarship and other types of professional development.Section 1. INTERNAL FUNDING Carol Sheffels Quigg Award for Excellence and Innovation Purpose: The Quigg Award provides support those who demonstrate unusually inventive, original