Faculty Actions Deadlines

Appointment/reappointment paperwork and final salary sheets for Summer Term 1, 2024 and Summer Term 2, 2024 are due in Faculty Actions no later than Friday, January 19, 2024. Appointment or reappointment paperwork is only required for part-time lecturers and graduate students. Please review the required documents (https://www.bu.edu/cas/faculty-staff/faculty-staff-handbook/faculty-personnel-matters/required-appointment-documents/) to ensure you submit a complete appointment packet. Salary sheets should be signed by the department chair and sent via email to Jules Bulafka (jrbulafk@bu.edu). Please contact Jules with any questions about Summer Term paperwork.

Paperwork for appointment or reappointment of part-time Lecturers for the Fall 2024 semester are due to the Office of Faculty Actions no later than Friday, March 1, 2024. Please review the required documents (https://www.bu.edu/cas/faculty-staff/faculty-staff-handbook/faculty-personnel-matters/required-appointment-documents/) to ensure you submit a complete appointment packet. If you have questions, please contact Arthur Peterson (apeter@bu.edu).

Please note that Departments and Programs need to notify Part-Time Lecturers of their specific course assignments in writing (email is sufficient) prior to submitting the appropriate appointment paperwork. In general, Part-Time Lecturers are covered by the Service Employees International Union, Local 509. The Union contract can be found here, and Departments/ Programs should be familiar with its contents.

Reappointment or non-reappointment paperwork for full-time faculty with a notification date of June 30, 2024 is due to Faculty Actions no later than Friday, March 22, 2024. Please review the required documents (https://www.bu.edu/cas/faculty-staff/faculty-staff-handbook/faculty-personnel-matters/required-appointment-documents/) to ensure you submit a complete appointment packet.

You will receive a full list of faculty members in this group later in January; if you have questions about any specific faculty members, please contact Arthur Peterson (apeter@bu.edu).

Appointment or reappointment paperwork for Secondary Administrative Appointments for the 2024/2025 academic-year is due to Faculty Actions no later than Friday, April 12, 2024. Please review the required documents (https://www.bu.edu/cas/faculty-staff/faculty-staff-handbook/faculty-personnel-matters/required-appointment-documents/) to ensure you submit a complete appointment packet. If you have questions about paperwork or your administrative stipend pool, please contact Arthur Peterson (apeter@bu.edu).

Overbase payment requests for teaching above a full-time faculty member’s normal teaching load are due no later than Friday, April 19, 2024.

Please see https://www.bu.edu/cas/faculty-staff/faculty-staff-handbook/faculty-personnel-matters/required-appointment-documents/ for a listing of required materials to be submitted and links to relevant forms.

Research faculty members (Research Assistant Professors, Research Associate Professors, and Research Professors) and academic researchers do not have standard reappointment dates due to the nature of their funding and appointments. Departments need to monitor contract end dates for research faculty to ensure that reappointment paperwork is submitted at least two months before the expiration of their current contract. Please note that irrespective of the contract start and end dates, Research Faculty with professorial ranks are now on a July 1 cycle for salary increases except in unusual circumstances.

Please see https://www.bu.edu/cas/faculty-staff/faculty-staff-handbook/faculty-personnel-matters/required-appointment-documents/ for a listing of required materials to be submitted and links to relevant forms.

Mid-tenure reviews take place in the sixth semester of tenure-track appointments. Gina Halabi (ghalabi@bu.edu) will be in contact with all departments regarding candidates who are currently in their sixth semester. The memo of explanation and forms are available at https://www.bu.edu/cas/faculty-staff/faculty-staff-handbook/faculty-personnel-matters/mid-tenure-review/. The due date for Spring 2024 mid-tenure reviews is Friday, April 28, 2024.

Gina Halabi (ghalabi@bu.edu) has sent initial information regarding the 2024/2025 tenure/promotion review processes to departments with candidates for tenure and/or promotion in the next cycle. Updated information about the tenure and promotion review process is available at https://www.bu.edu/cas/faculty-staff/faculty-staff-handbook/faculty-personnel-matters/tenure-and-promotion-policies-and-practices/. Additionally, a calendar of the tenure and promotion and promotion to Professor review schedules can be found at https://www.bu.edu/cas/faculty-staff/faculty-staff-handbook/faculty-personnel-matters/tenure-and-promotion-policies-and-practices/cas-tenure-and-promotion-schedule/ and https://www.bu.edu/cas/faculty-staff/faculty-staff-handbook/faculty-personnel-matters/tenure-and-promotion-policies-and-practices/promotion-only-reviews/, respectively.