About
Lateral Reclassifications
Lateral reclassifications requests should be processed when:
- A professional-track faculty member's job duties have changed significantly and are therefore no longer consistent with the type of duties associated with their current job title.
- The proposed title is a better fit for a professional-track faculty member's current responsibilities.
Lateral reclassifications can only be made within the faculty member's current rank and should not be used to try and bypass the promotion process (for example, faculty cannot be reclassified from an Assistant Professor of Instruction/Practice to an Associate Professor of Instruction/Practice). If the department is pursing reclassification for a faculty member who holds multiple faculty appointments in multiple departments, all of the appointments will need to be reclassified, since faculty cannot hold two different faculty titles simultaneously.
Track Changes
Track changes should be processed when the faculty member is jumping from one track to another. For example, a professional-track faculty member is changing tracks to become a tenure-track faculty member. The Department Chair should email the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs with their justification if they believe one of their faculty should change to another track.
Required Materials and Processes
Lateral Reclassifications
Required Materials
The following materials are required for lateral reclassifications:
- PAR for the proposed position (coversheet only; everything other than the CV and draft offer letter can be marked as "on file")
- Faculty's current CV
- Request for Faculty Lateral Reclassification Form
- Draft Reclassification Offer Letter (included in request form)
Process
Lateral reclassification requests should be submitted to CNS Faculty Affairs for the College's review at least 30 days prior to the requested start date of the new appointment.
Once the reclassification request has been final approved by the Provost's Office, departments will issue the official reclassification offer letter to the candidate for their signature. Accepted and signed offer letters should be sent directly to EVPP Academic Personnel Services for processing, with an electronic copy sent to CNS Faculty Affairs for filing. The APS team will then push the new appointment into Workday.
Track Changes
Required Materials
The following materials are required for track changes:
- PAR for the proposed position, taking note of the following:
- New recommendation letters are required
- Submit a posting waiver and justification from the Department Chair instead of an EEO report and job posting
- Mark language form as "on file"
- New recommendation letters are required
- Track Change Draft Offer Letter
Process
If the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs agrees that the department should move forward with a track change for a faculty member, then completed track change PARs should be sent to CNS Faculty Affairs for the College's review at least 30 days prior to the requested start date of the new appointment.
Once the PAR has been final approved, departments will issue the official track change offer letter to the candidate for their signature. Accepted and signed offer letters should be sent directly to EVPP Academic Personnel Services for processing, with an electronic copy sent to CNS Faculty Affairs for filing. The APS team will then push the new appointment into Workday.
Questions or concerns: Contact CNS Faculty Affairs
