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Committee Information

Purpose

The Committee is charged with making recommendations on the conferral of faculty tenure and promotion to the Provost. The Provost may seek recommendations from the Committee regarding promotion and tenure policies and procedures.

The Administrators of the UPT are the Divisional Deans and Vice President for Strategic Analytics and Institutional Research, or their designee. This body receives post-tenure review recommendations from the Provost and issues final administrative action.

Composition

The Committee consists of the Provost as chair, the Divisional Deans of the six (6) academic divisions, the Vice President for Institutional Research, or their designee, and six tenured members of the instructional staff, one (1) from each of the academic divisions, appointed by the Provost with the President's approval. Members serve staggered three-year terms. The Provost will appoint a representative from the Office of the Provost to serve as secretary without vote.

Membership

Provost

• Trent Gould, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, gouldte@91°µÍøOH.edu

Research and Innovation

• Rick Page, Interim Vice President for Research and Innovation, pagerc@91°µÍøOH.edu

Deans

• Melissa Thomasson, Interim Vice President of the Regional Campuses and Dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Applied Sciences, thomasma@91°µÍøOH.edu
• Jenny Darroch, Dean, Farmer School of Business, darrocj@91°µÍøOH.edu
• Amity Noltemeyer, Dean, College of Education, Health and Society, anoltemeyer@91°µÍøOH.edu
• Renee Baernstein, Dean, College of Arts and Science, baernspr@91°µÍøOH.edu
• Ryan Fisher, Dean, College of Creative Arts, fishe207@91°µÍøOH.edu
• Beena Sukumaran, Dean, College of Engineering and Computing, sukumab@91°µÍøOH.edu

Faculty Members

Term ends 2027

• Elizabeth Kiel Luebbe, Department of Psychology, CAS, kielluej@91°µÍøOH.edu
• Christopher Tanner, Department of Music, CCA, tannerc@91°µÍøOH.edu

Term ends 2028

• Kate Kuvalanka, College of Education, Health and Society, kuvalaka@91°µÍøOH.edu
• Jennifer Rode, Department of Nursing, CLAAS, rodejl@91°µÍøOH.edu 

Term ends 2029

• Dmitriy Garmatyuk, College of Engineering and Computing, garmatd@91°µÍøOH.edu
• Thomas Boulton, Farmer School of Business, boultotj@91°µÍøOH.edu

Administrative Support

• Jenn Walter, Executive Assistant to the Provost, jenn.walter@91°µÍøOH.edu