Extensions of the tenure-probationary period:
- During the calendar year 2020, about 200 IUPUI tenure-track faculty received one-year COVID-related extensions of their tenure-probationary period. Faculty may still apply at their original time for a third-year review or for final review (sixth year).
- OAA and the IUPUI Faculty Council Ad Hoc Committee on Revising Promotion and Tenure Standards and the IUPUI Faculty Council approved language for internal and external reviewers regarding COVID effects.
- For any authorized extension of the probationary period, it is as if that year did not occur. Candidates may discuss specifcs of the effect of COVID-19, but reviewers including internal committees, chairs, deans, and external reviewers should not have productivity expectations that include that year as a work year.
- Please note that extensions are approved for a variety of reasons, such as family formation, personal or family health issues, lab or other research disruptions. In general, the language used is:
- "Candidate has received a one-year extension of probationary period."
- This is used no matter the reason (family, medical, lab, COVID-19). COVID may be mentioned but no other reason (e.g. details of medical issues) should be described.)
- Candidates whose work is still, or again, affected by COVID-19, can request an extension using the regular process: send an explanation and a request to your chair, who sends it to the dean, who sends it to ude[dot]iupui[at]aao for Margie Ferguson's (Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs) approval.