The University of Delaware Provost’s Commission on Tenure-Track Faculty will hold three listening sessions for tenured and tenure-track faculty members at each rank -- assistant, associate and full professor -- over the next three weeks.

The purpose of these sessions is for members of the commission to hear faculty input regarding the commission’s charge. The listening sessions will be held from 1-2:30 p.m. on Fridays in 116 Gore Hall on the following dates:

Feb. 24: Assistant Professors,
March 3: Associate Professors and
March 10: Full Professors.

At the September 2016 Faculty Senate meeting, Provost Domenico Grasso announced the membership and charge for the Provost’s Commission on Tenure-Track Faculty. The plan to form this commission was first announced by the provost at the May 2016 Faculty Senate meeting, with the approval of the Senate Executive Committee.

The commission’s  charge is

1. To define more completely and explicitly the purposes and roles of tenure-track faculty members as an essential part of the mission of the University of Delaware to include but not limited to instruction, scholarship and service.

2. To recommend guidelines for hiring and promotion of tenure-track faculty, with clear emphasis on the pursuit of excellence.

3. To recommend guidelines for evaluation of excellence in scholarship, teaching and service that accommodates academic disciplinary differences.

4.  To recommend guidelines for pre- and post-tenure mentoring and evaluation in order to create a sustained environment for continued excellence.

5. To develop resolutions for consideration by the Faculty Senate for matters involving changes to the UD Faculty Handbook.