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Retention, Promotion, and Tenure Standards

Per Policy 6-303, each division, department, school, or college shall develop and revise, as needed, a statement of criteria, standards, evidence, and procedures to be used for tenure-line faculty reviews for retention, promotion, tenure, and informal reviews. These standards require the approval of the academic unit faculty, dean, the Senate Faculty Review Standards Committee (SFRSC), and the cognizant senior vice president. To assist with this process, the SFRSC has developed, with Senior Vice President support, a template with the requirements from policy. For assistance with the drafting and the approval process, please contact Trina Rich in the Office for Faculty at trina.rich@utah.edu or 801.581.6690.

In response to recent changes in state law, the noted guidelines are considered "under revision" to allow for time to address the required changes and for the shared governance approval process.

RPT Standards Template (7.2024)

Department/School/College Effective Date
College of Architecture + Planning (under revision) July 1, 2021
  • School of Architecture
 
  • Department of City and Metropolitan Planning
 
  • Division of Multi-Disciplinary Design
 
  • Division of Games
 
David Eccles School of Business (under revision)

July 1, 2023

  • Department of Accounting
 
  • Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy
 
  • Department of Finance
 
  • Department of Management
 
  • Department of Marketing
 
  • Department of Operations and Information Systems
 
School for Cultural and Social Transformation  
July 1, 2018
July 1, 2023
School of Dentistry  
College of Education  
July 1, 2023
July 1, 2024
January 1, 2018
December 15, 2018

College of Engineering
Engineering RPT Standards Clarification (7.26.2012)

July 1, 2017
December 27, 2023
  • Department of Chemical Engineering
 
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
 
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
 
  • Department of Materials Science and Engineering
 
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
 
  • School of Computing
 
College of Fine Arts  
July 1, 2023
July 1, 2017
July 1, 2017
July 1, 2022
July 1, 2018
College of Health (under revision) July 1, 2023
  • Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
 
  • Department of Health and Kinesiology
 
  • Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology
 
  • Department of Occupational and Recreational Therapies
 
  • Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism
 
  • Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training
 
College of Humanities  
July 1, 2013
September 19, 2023
June 1, 2023
July 1, 2019
July 1, 2012
July 1, 2017
July 1, 2023
S.J. Quinney College of Law (under revision) March 24, 2023
August 1, 2019
J. Willard Marriott Library
External Reviewer Update 3.2024
July 1, 2022
Eccles Health Sciences Library August 1, 2016
Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine 2015
July 1, 2012
College of Nursing August 22, 2019
College of Pharmacy  
July 1, 2012
September 14, 2012
November 12, 2015
July 1, 2012
College of Science  
2015
September 5, 2022
July 1, 2024
Spring 2007
July 1, 2024

 

 

 

College of Social and Behavioral Science  
July 1, 2020
December 7, 2007
July 1, 2024
July 1, 2019
July 1, 2012
July 1, 2022
July 1, 2022
College of Social Work (under revision) January 1, 2023
Last Updated: 7/16/24