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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 a year within the scope of a multi-year review as having been impacted by personal circumstances (related to COVID-19 or not). 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.
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