B/5.6 Faculty Promotion Committees


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	A - Governance/Organisation
	B - Human Resources
	C - Teaching/Learning
	D - Research/Development
	E - Student Administration
	F - Information Management
	G - Financial Management
	H - Physical Facilities
	I - International/Community
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Contact Officer	Director, Governance Services
Approval Date	03/12/2007
Approval Authority	Vice-Chancellor
Date of Next Review	01/07/2010

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Faculty Promotion Committees are Vice-Chancellor's committees established in accordance with Council Procedure No 1 - Committees. Faculty Promotion Committees are accountable to the Vice-Chancellor for fulfilling the following terms of reference.

Terms of reference

A Faculty Promotion Committee considers applications for promotion to Level C (see B/5.3) and recommends to the executive dean of faculty for approval. The Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) will oversee the process.

Membership

Executive dean of faculty as Chair
One head of school elected by the heads of school in the faculty
One member of the academic staff of the faculty, at Level C or above, elected by and from all academic staff of the faculty holding full-time or part-time appointments
One member, external to the faculty, at Level C or above, who is not a head of school or executive dean, nominated by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic).

On the request of any applicant or committee member, the Human Resources Director and the Equity Coordinator, or their nominees, may attend any meeting of a Faculty Promotion Committee to receive and review all relevant documentation, to observe the process and advise the Chair on University promotion procedures. Any such attendance is recorded in the committee’s record of proceedings.

The composition of the Faculty Promotion Committee should ensure a balance of expertise across the core areas of teaching and research.

Where an application is received from an Indigenous staff member, the promotion committee is to be reconstituted, prior to the consideration of any applications, to include an Indigenous staff member. This will be an additional committee position. In this circumstance the Secretary to the Faculty Promotion Committee will request that the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) nominate the Indigenous staff member to become a committee member.

A nominee of the executive dean of faculty is secretary.

Any person who is an applicant shall not be a member of the committee or act as a referee for any applicant to that committee.

As University policy requires care in constituting committees to ensure gender balance, those memberships of the Faculty Promotion Committee to be filled by appointment or nomination without election are to be finalised only after the outcomes of elections are known in relation to positions which are required to be filled by election.

Tenure and frequency of meeting

Terms of office are as detailed in section 3 of Council Procedure No 1 - Committees except that, to ensure some overlap of expertise, half the elected and nominated positions will be reconstituted in each year of a two year period.

Faculty Promotion Committees meet as required.

Reporting

Faculty Promotion Committees advise the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) and Vice-Chancellor annually, on the outcomes of the faculty promotion processes.

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Modification History

Date	Sections	Source	Details
03.12.07	All	Vice-Chancellor	Revised terms of reference consistent with academic promotion policies; policy renumbered to B/5.6 (formerly B/5.4)
27.07.07	All	Human Resources Director	Policy renumbered to B/5.4 (formerly B/10.2)
16.04.07	All	Vice-Chancellor	Revised membership provisions consistent with revised academic promotion policy (B/10.1) (endorsed by Vice-Chancellor’s Advisory Committee 04.04.07)
28.03.06	All	Vice-Chancellor	Revised terms of reference to delegate approval authority for Levels B and C applicants to executive deans
28.03.06	All	Secretariat	Renumbered and relocated to B/10.2 (formerly B/10.1.5)
29.06.04	All	Vice-Chancellor	Revised terms of reference and membership provisions, in accordance with recommendations of Vice-Chancellor's Panel of the 2003/2004 Committees Review
02.06.04	All	Council	Revised constitution of promotion committees to include an Indigenous staff member when an application from an Indigenous staff member is being considered

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