Overview

See EVPP: Personal Circumstances Flag for full details.

Available to Associate and full Professors and professional (non-tenure) track faculty.

Overview

Available to professional-track and tenured faculty.

A Personal Circumstances (PC) Flag is Faculty Affairs has created a Personal Circumstances (PC) Flag that can be noted on a faculty member’s personnel record. It is analogous to the Probationary Period Extension that tenure-track faculty are able to request. This allows these faculty to designate It designates a year within the scope of a multi-year review as having been impacted by personal circumstances (related to COVID-19 or not). The circumstances. These circumstances may include, but not be limited to, disability or illness of the faculty member, or acting as principal caregiver for a dependent. The notation, but not the reason for it, would be available to review committees and provide context for the flagged year.An approved Personal Circumstances flag stops the promotion clock for one year for tenured Associate Professors. It does not stop the clock for any other type of review (Comprehensive Periodic Review, for example).Requests made in 2020-21 can be associated with events occurring in 2019-20. The flag is not available for events that occurred prior to 2019-20.

A faculty member may request up to two Personal Circumstances Flags while in rank. A faculty member should request a Personal Circumstances Flag as soon as it is apparent that personal circumstances have impacted the faculty member’s work and must be requested within one calendar year of the event(s).

Personal Circumstances Flags will display in the "Biographical" tab of the Faculty Profile (restricted access), with the academic year to which it applies.

A request to rescind an approved flag may be submitted in writing.

Process

Tenured and professional/non-tenure track faculty should complete and submit a Personal Circumstances Flag Request Form to be routed via DocuSign to their department chair (if applicable), Dean, and the Provost’s Office. Faculty should first contact the Office of the Dean EA for the appropriate email address to enter in the form - it is different from the Dean's standard email address.

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See EVPP: Personal Circumstances Flag for additional information.

Process

Department AM submits form "Personal Circumstances Flag" at Faculty Affairs/APS ServiceNow: Complete Forms.

• • For guidance, see COE: ServiceNow Forms

• • In the section "Required Approval Routing," add the following:
    • Dean's Staff: Claire M Bush (cam6633)
    • Dean or Dean Designate: Beth Maloch (malochb)

Approved Personal Circumstances Flags will be documented in the Provost Office's Faculty Profile system.

See EVPP: How to submit Request for Personal Circumstances Flag for more information.

Impact on faculty reviews

See EVPP: Personal Circumstances Flag for more information, including impact on different types of faculty reviews.

Comprehensive Periodic Reviews

An approved PC Flag does not in and of itself adjust the timing of comprehensive periodic review, but should prompt reviewers and peer review committees to reframe the review period for the faculty member. For example, if a faculty member is going through comprehensive periodic review has been approved for one PC Flag during the period of time under consideration, the peer review committee should consider the body of work as having been completed in five years rather than six.

Promotion Review

Reviews are considered accelerated when the number of years in rank less the number of PC Flags is fewer than six. For example, a tenured Associate Professor in their sixth year in rank who has one PC Flag would be considered accelerated where a tenured Associate Professor in their seventh year in rank with one PC Flag would not be considered accelerated.

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