Appendix B: Timetable for 2024-2025 Promotion and Tenure Reviews

Last updated July 1, 2024

Deadline (on or before)	Items Due
July 1, 2024	Administrative Guidelines distributed. Unit guidelines sent to the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs. All promotion and tenure procedures are established. In most cases, units will have established procedures previously and will continue to use them. If, however, changes are recommended, the changes must be adopted formally by the faculty, approved by the dean, and approved by the Executive Vice President and Provost by this date.
October 3, 2024	All promotion and tenure review committees membership lists, including rank and title, for all promotion and tenure review committees are forwarded to the Executive Vice President and Provost, together with a statement of procedures for forming review committees or a statement that such procedures have not changed.
Deadline established by Units	All reviews for faculty at non-University Park locations who have retained their tenure status in a college at University Park completed and forwarded to college deans.
Deadline established by Units	All department, school, and division level reviews, except for second-year, completed and forwarded to the college dean.
February 1, 2025	All factual changes or new information must be submitted by this date.
February 2, 2025	Feedback may now be provided to those candidates seeking promotion to professor who were not supported at the first level of review (typically the department/division/school/campus); these candidates may choose to withdraw their dossier before being reviewed by the next level of review.
February 28, 2025	All college-level reviews completed; positive recommendations by the dean (and all positive reviews prior to the dean’s review for final tenure regardless of the dean’s recommendation) forwarded to the University Promotion and Tenure Review Committee via the Office of Human Resources.
March 1, 2025	Candidates in their first year of the probationary period who are to be terminated by June 30 of the same academic year must be notified. (V.I.3.)
April 1, 2025	All department and division level second-year reviews (and second-year reviews at campuses in the University College or Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies) completed and forwarded to the college dean.
April 15, 2025	All reviews completed by the University Promotion and Tenure Review Committee; all recommendations forwarded to the Executive Vice President and Provost.
May 9, 2025	All final decisions on promotion and tenure completed by the President of the University based on recommendations of the Executive Vice President and Provost; all candidates notified of the results of the reviews.
June 14, 2025	Annual personnel evaluations completed and faculty informed of results of these evaluations, in writing; units have the option of forgoing an annual review of those faculty members who received a formal review for promotion and tenure.
June 28, 2025	All final decisions must be entered into WorkLion by the Human Resources Strategic Partner in the academic unit. Candidates who will not be continued in tenure-eligible positions must be notified in writing (V.I.3.).