Update regarding proposed Promotion and Tenure Guidelines specific to the WVU Health Sciences Center

There is an important update regarding proposed Promotion and Tenure Guidelines specific to the WVU Health Sciences Center. There are unique aspects of health sciences centers (e.g., clinical responsibilities, clinician track) that merit an HSC-specific document.

These proposed guidelines are a modified version of the newly adopted WVU Faculty Senate Guidelines used on the main Morgantown campus. Given the significance of these changes, we strongly encourage you to carefully review the proposed Health Sciences P&T guidelines. Your feedback and understanding are essential to ensuring the new process reflects our shared values and priorities across the Health Sciences community.

• For reference and comparison, please review the new main Morgantown campus P&T guidelines.
• Please complete the survey regarding the proposed Health Sciences guidelines. The survey will be open through June 23.

We have formatted the survey to allow you to give feedback by line so that we can review your responses more easily. You can review the proposed revisions in their original form, as well as the appendices that are meant to serve as examples, but not necessarily all-inclusive of teaching, research/scholarly activity and service.

Once we have achieved consensus internally, the Health Sciences P&T Guidelines will be submitted to the Provost for final approval, as is the case for all College, School, and Department-level guidelines.

In the future, Health Sciences leadership will be managing faculty evaluation and related processes internally, with the final level of promotion and tenure review now resting with the Health Sciences Chancellor, with no additional review from the Provost. In most respects, the Health Sciences Chancellor and WVU Provost operate on parallel levels and duplicate review is no longer necessary. This change is in service for efficiency and more local-level shared governance.

Thank you in advance for your attention and input on the Health Sciences Guidelines for Promotion and Tenure.

Clay Marsh, MD
Chancellor and Executive Dean
WVU Health Sciences

Louise Veselicky, DDS, MDS
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs
WVU Health Sciences