I understand that the President has sent out letters on his recommendations for promotion and tenure.  If you were denied either, the imposed BOR contract details your rights.  Section 12.5 is reproduced below, tenure provisions are found in Section 13.3 with the same language. If you need assistance or have further questions, please contact me at 688-4914.  Please forward this message to any colleagues you know who may be affected.

 

Cordially yours,

Gary Aguiar, President

SD Council of Higher Education

 

"The faculty unit member will be notified no later than April 1 of the year in which the faculty unit member is being considered for promotion, of whether the president will recommend promotion to the Board. Such notice will indicate the institutional promotion and tenure committee's recommendation. If the president intends to recommend that promotion be denied, the president will, upon receipt prior to April 15 of a written request, within fifteen (15) working days of the request provide reasons in writing for the decision. The reasons given shall be substantive in nature and shall transcend the mere fact of the recommendations by the committees by including the opinions of the president from the information available to him/her. The faculty unit member may file a written request for reconsideration within ten (10) working days of receipt of the president's reasons for denial of promotion. The request shall specify the grounds and considerations that the faculty unit member believes warrant a different result. The president, after reviewing the request, shall notify the faculty unit member in writing, within ten (10) working days, of the final institutional recommendation to be forwarded to the Board and of its basis. The rights to obtain reasons and to request reconsideration shall not expand the rights and limitations under §7.8."