Promotion and Tenure Committee

Responsibilities

(1) Review faculty who are administratively assigned to the Department of Entomology and provide recommendations to the Head for the Department on promotion and tenure.

(2)Review Assistant Professors and Associate Professors annually and provide recommendations to the Head of the Department on their progress toward promotion and tenure.

Members

Member	Term Expires(End of Calendar Year)	Representing
T.X. Liu	2008	AgriLife Research/AgriLife Extension
Roger Gold - Chair	2008	TAMU/AgriLife Research/AgriLife Extension
James Reinert	2008	AgriLife Research
Brad Vinson	2008	TAMU/AgriLife Research
Mike Merchant	2009	AgriLife Extension
M.O. Way	2009	AgriLife Research/AgriLife Extension
Marvin Harris	2009	TAMU/AgriLife Research
Max Summers	2009	TAMU/AgriLife Research
Bart Drees	2010	AgriLife Research/AgriLife Extension
Allen Knutson	2010	AgriLife Research/AgriLife Extension
Spencer Johnston	2010	TAMU/AgriLife Research
Jim Woolley	2010	TAMU/AgriLife Research

Composition, Organization, and Voting Privileges

The membership shall consist of faculty members with the rank of Professor in the Department of Entomology. Three P&T subcommittees shall function to evaluate faculty having different responsibilities and administrative assignments within the Department of Entomology. These subcommittees are as follows:

(1) TAMU SUBCOMMITTEE: Five TAMU members with tenure

(2) AgriLife Research SUBCOMMITTEE:Five members with AgriLife Research appointments

(3) AgriLife Extension SUBCOMMITTEE: Five members with AgriLife Extension appointments

APPOINTMENT OF FACULTY EVALUATION COMMITTEE

All FEC members shall be elected by vote of the faculty. Faculty of all ranks may vote, but only for those units in which they hold appointments. The Head of the Department shall select subcommittee members, and appoint the Chair of the FEC and Chair of the three subcommittees from the roster of elected members.

TERM OF APPOINTMENT

The term of appointment for each member shall be for three years. The initial appointees shall serve staggered terms. The terms for Chair of FEC and Chair of FEC subcommittees shall be for one year. All appointments are eligible for re-election and reappointment for another term.

Procedures for Evaluation for Promotion and Tenure