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
_____________________________.
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.