All Regular Rank appointments at the rank of Medical Instructor and Assistant Professor are assigned at the Department level and forwarded to the Appointments, Promotion and Tenure (APT) office for administrative processing and the Board of Trustees (BOT) for informational purposes.
All Regular Rank appointments at the rank of Associate Professor (Faculty Career Track and Faculty Tenure Track) and the rank of Professor in the Faculty Career Track are assigned at the Department level (Department Chair in conjunction with the Department APT Committee) and forwarded to the Appointments, Promotion and Tenure (APT) office for administrative processing and the Medical Center Executive Committee (MCEC) and the Board of Trustees (BOT) for informational purposes.
All Regular Rank recommendations for the conferring of tenure (rank of Associate Professor with tenure) and promotion to Full Professor with tenure are initiated at the Department level (Department Chair in conjunction with the Department APT Committee), reviewed by the Clinical Sciences APT Committee, and approved by the Dean of the School of Medicine, the MCEC and the BOT. After the final approval, the APT office issues a letter of approval to the faculty member.
