Available to Associate and full Professors and non-tenure track/professional faculty. The Personal Circumstances (PC) Flag 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 the pandemic or not). The notation, but not the reason for it, would be available to review committees and provide context for the flagged year. 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. The flag can be received by a faculty member twice while in rank. A request to rescind an approved flag may be rescinded in writing. The PC Flag will be documented in the Provost's Office Faculty Profile System, and will become viewable later in the spring 2021 semester. See EVPP: Personal Circumstances Flag for more information. Comprehensive Periodic ReviewsAn 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. 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. |