Promotion and Tenure Flow of Materials

Faculty with appt in one unit (except BSE & CEHS)
  1. Candidate prepares materials 
  2. Unit leader or P&T committee chair requests external review letters (External letters are not required for advancement to associate professor for professors of practice, research professor, extension professors, and professors of scholarly practice.)
  3. Unit P&T committee acts on file
  4. Unit leader acts on file
  5. Cognizant dean(s) acts on file
  6. IANR council of deans act on file
  7. IANR vice chancellor acts on file
  8. Report sent to chancellor 
  9. Report sent to Board of Regents
Faculty with appts in two units
  1. Candidate prepares materials
  2. Unit leader or P&T committee chair from majority department requests external review letters
  3. Minority unit P&T committee makes an  advisory recommendation on file
  4. Minority unit leader makes an  advisory recommendation on file
  5. Majority unit P&T committee acts on file
  6. Majority unit leader acts on file
  7. Cognizant dean(s) acts on file
    1. For faculty with an appointment in CEHS, file is reviewed by CEHS P&T committee before being review by Cognizant dean(s) 
    2. For faculty with an appointment in BSE, file will concurrently go through COE process  
  8. IANR council of deans act on file
  9. IANR vice chancellor acts on file
  10. Report sent to chancellor
  11. Report sent to Board of Regents
Faculty in BSE
  1. Candidate prepares materials
  2. BSE department head or BSE P&T committee requests external review letters
  3. BSE P&T committee acts on file
  4. BSE department head acts on file
    1. Cognizant dean(s) acts on file
    2. IANR council of deans act on file
    3. COE P&T committee makes an advisory recommendation
    4. COE dean makes an advisory recommendation
  5. IANR vice chancellor acts on the file 
  6. Report sent to chancellor 
  7. Report sent to Board of Regents
Faculty in CEHS
  1. Candidate prepares materials
  2. Department chair or department P&T committee chair  requests external review letters
  3. Department P&T committee chair acts on file
  4. Department chair acts on file
  5. CEHS P&T committee acts on file
  6. Cognizant deans act on file 
  7. IANR council of deans act on file 
  8. IANR vice chancellor acts on file
  9. or Executive vice chancellor acts on file
  10. Report sent to chancellor
  11. Report sent to Board of Regents
Extension Educators
  1. Candidate prepares materials
  2. Promotion committee acts on file
  3. Engagement zone coordinator, program leader, or department head/chair acts on file
  4. Extension dean acts on file
  5. IANR council of deans act on the file
  6. IANR vice chancellor acts on the file
  7. Report sent to chancellor
  8. Report sent to Board of Regents
Geoscientists
  1. Candidate prepares materials
  2. School of Natural Resources  P&T committee acts on file
  3. School of Natural Resources director acts on file
  4. IANR council of deans acts on file
  5. IANR vice chancellor acts on file
  6. Report sent to chancellor
  7. Report sent to Board of Regents
Nebraska Forest Service Faculty
  1. Candidate prepares materials
  2. Nebraska Forest Service promotion  committee acts on file
  3. Nebraska Forest Service director acts on file
  4. IANR vice chancellor acts on file
  5. Report sent to chancellor
  6. Report sent to Board of Regents