FIRST YEAR NOMINATING PETITION FOR

PROMOTION & TENURE COMMITTEE ELECTION

 

The Promotion and Tenure Committee (P&T) will consist of up to 8 members, chosen as follows: The School of Natural Sciences, the School of Humanities, the School of Social Sciences, the School of Engineering, and the School of Management will each elect one representative to P&T. The School of Music and the School of Architecture will together vote to elect one representative to P&T.  Any full professor may be nominated for the position on the basis of a petition with at least ten signatures.   The Provost may appoint up to two additional full professors to a one-year term on the Promotion and Tenure Committee.

 

Faculty Council has decided to assure continuity of procedures by continuing the three unexpired elected P&T positions.  The new P&T representatives from Engineering, Humanities, and Natural Science will be elected in 2006, 2006, and 2007, respectively.

 

INSTRUCTIONS:  All nominators must be eligible to vote in the applicable election in which they are nominating a candidate.  This nomination form is for the P&T election from (check one below): 

q  School of Management - Term 2005 - 2007

q  School of Social Sciences - Term 2005 - 2008

q  School of Architecture and School of Music - Term 2005 - 2008

The ten undersigned members of the Rice University voting faculty*, who are eligible to nominate a candidate in the election described above, nominate ___________________________________, a voting faculty member who is eligible for the election and who is a member of the Department of _____________________________.

NOMINATOR'S NAME (PRINTED)                                  SIGNATURE                                                      DEPARTMENT

  1. _________________________________         __________________________              ________________
  2. _________________________________         __________________________              ________________
  3. _________________________________         __________________________              ________________
  4. _________________________________         __________________________              ________________
  5. _________________________________         __________________________              ________________
  6. _________________________________         __________________________              ________________
  7. _________________________________         __________________________              ________________
  8. _________________________________         __________________________              ________________
  9. _________________________________         __________________________              ________________
  10. _________________________________         __________________________              ________________

I accept the nomination:

 

_____________________________________      __________________________________________     ________

Name of Nominee (printed as it should appear on ballot)    Signature of Nominee                                          Date

This nomination MUST be received in the Office of Faculty Council (520 Fondren Library, MS-35) BEFORE 12:00 PM, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2005.  LATE NOMINATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

*Voting faculty:  Tenured faculty, whether full-time or part-time; untenured full-time Professors, Associate Professors, and Assistant Professors; full-time Lecturers and Instructors who have two or more years in these positions at Rice University; untenured part-time Professors, Associate Professors, and Assistant Professors designated as half-time or more with two or more years in these positions at Rice University; research faculty (Distinguished Faculty Fellows, Senior Faculty Fellows, and Faculty Fellows).  Research faculty are entitled to attend faculty meetings and to vote on matters arising therein except those pertaining to tenure  and exclusively to undergraduate curriculum and affairs.