2.5 Arts and Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee

2.5.1 Membership
The Arts and Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee is made up of six tenured faculty holding the rank of professor or associate professor; at least three members shall be at the rank of professor, and the associate professors must have been at that rank for at least four years by the time of their service on the committee begins, and at Drake for at least six years. Department chairs may not serve on the Promotion and Tenure Committee. Only one faculty member from a single department and only two faculty members from a single division or school may serve at any one time on the Promotion and Tenure Committee.

2.5.2 Elections
Members are elected for three-year terms. Each of the three academic units -- the combined divisions of Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and the School of Fine Arts -- is represented by two faculty members each. All committee members are elected by the whole faculty. After serving one three-year term, a faculty member may be re-elected to the Committee only after the lapse of one year.

It shall be required that for all elections to the Promotion and Tenure Committee, the names of at least two persons eligible to be elected to a given position on the Committee shall appear on the ballot. To satisfy this requirement, the Faculty Cabinet is authorized to a) waive the requirement that a faculty member "may be re-elected to the Committee only after the lapse of one year," allowing for the election to a one-year term of a person whose three-year term has expired; or b) it may move an incumbent member originally elected to an at-large position to one of the division/school positions (without extending the term of the original election), making possible the election of a new person to the vacated at-large position. In making its decision on this matter, the Faculty Cabinet shall consult with members of the current Promotion and Tenure Committee.

The election of Promotion and Tenure Committee members is held each Spring in accordance with the College's election procedures. At its organizational meeting in the subsequent Fall, convened by the Dean of the College, a faculty member shall be elected by the Committee to chair the Promotion and Tenure Committee for that academic year.