III.L.1   General

In making any appointment to the faculty, the University seeks to appoint the best candidate for the position. Faculty members on term appointments do not have a right to reappointment or promotion, and decisions on reappointment, like initial decisions on appointment, are subject to the exercise of professional and scholarly judgment by competent University authorities.

To ensure that there is no misunderstanding about the availability of positions, that extra-department and extra-school interests of the University have not been overlooked, and that the department or school consideration of each member of the non-tenured faculty has been adequate, chairs of Faculty of Arts and Sciences departments and deans of schools will, as a matter of course (and prior to any formal action on appointments by the department or school), discuss with a representative of the Provost's Office all members of their faculties who might expect to be considered for reappointment or promotion. When a decision not to reappoint or promote is made on a candidate who has held an appointment at Yale for more than one year, the department or school submits to the Provost a brief report of the action to be taken before that decision is conveyed to the candidate. In the School of Medicine, departments submit such reports to its Office for Faculty Affairs.

In making any appointment to the faculty, the University seeks to appoint the best candidate for the position. Faculty members on term appointments do not have a right to reappointment or promotion, and decisions on reappointment, like initial decisions on appointment, are subject to the exercise of professional and scholarly judgment by competent University authorities.

To ensure that there is no misunderstanding about the availability of positions, that extra-department and extra-school interests of the University have not been overlooked, and that the department or school consideration of each member of the non-tenured faculty has been adequate, chairs of Faculty of Arts and Sciences departments and deans of schools will, as a matter of course (and prior to any formal action on appointments by the department or school), discuss with a representative of the Provost's Office all members of their faculties who might expect to be considered for reappointment or promotion. When a decision not to reappoint or promote is made on a candidate who has held an appointment at Yale for more than one year, the department or school submits to the Provost a brief report of the action to be taken before that decision is conveyed to the candidate. In the School of Medicine, departments submit such reports to its Office for Faculty Affairs.