This page contains information about appointments and promotions for tenure-track and teaching faculty members along with template letters for external evaluation requests. Questions or updates should be sent to the Academic Council Administrator at homewoodac@jhu.edu.

Tenure Regulations

To allow individual faculty members maximum opportunity to demonstrate scholarly capacity and intellectual growth, and to give the Academic Council ample time to evaluate fairly the individual, the following tenure regulations have been approved by the President and the Board of Trustees.

• Tenure Regulations (effective October 15, 2016)

Appointment and Promotion Procedures

• Appointment and Promotion Procedures (effective July 1, 2021)
• Tenure Appeals Process Summary Chart

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Departments & Centers

Description of Academic Titles, Appointment and Promotion Policies

• Description of Academic Titles (revised November 7, 2018)
• Description of Academic Titles Table I (revised May 2011)
• Description of Academic Titles Table II (revised January 2018)

Tenure-line Faculty

• Best search practices:

  • Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
  • Whiting School of Engineering

• Template letters from department to referees:

  • Appointment as Associate
  • Promotion from Assistant to Associate Professor
  • Promotion from Associate to Full Professor
• Dossier Checklist
• Referee List Template
• RPT Department User Guide

Teaching Faculty

The primary responsibility of persons appointed to the Associate Teaching Professors and Teaching Professors ranks are to assist in the teaching mission of the schools and programs of the Homewood Schools. These individuals are full-time non-tenure track instructors, hired to teach on a long-term basis, in positions commensurate with their qualifications.

• Teaching Faculty Checklist (revised December 14, 2016)
• Guidelines for Teaching Faculty (revised January 24, 2018)
• Teaching Faculty Template Letter

Ad Hoc Committees

• Template letters from ad hoc committee chair to referees:

  • Appointment as Associate Professor
  • Appointment as Full Professor (for candidates who are currently a Full Professor)
  • Appointment as Full Professor (for candidates who are currently an Associate Professor)
  • Promotion from Assistant to Associate Professor
  • Promotion from untenured Associate Professor to tenured Associate Professor
• Dossier Checklist
• Referee List Template
• Electronic Materials Policy
• Ad Hoc Committee Report Template