Reappointment, Tenure, CCE, and Promotion

Reappointment, tenure, Certificate of Continuous Employment (CCE), and promotion actions are governed by the City University of New York (CUNY) bylaws, the PSC/CUNY collective bargaining agreement and University and College policies. Reappointment, tenure, CCE, and promotion decisions are made on the basis of the candidate’s record of performance in teaching, scholarship (for full-time faculty in professorial titles) and service. The balance between these areas and, in particular, the numbers of publications, or for those in the studio or performing arts, the numbers of shows or performances, necessary for tenure and promotion is difficult to define given the differences between fields of study and types of scholarship. The College-wide Committee on Personnel and Budget (CP&B) is particularly interested in documentation of quality and excellence in all three areas of teaching, scholarship, and service.

Upon recommendation of the College and approval of the CUNY Board of Trustees (BOT), full-time faculty in professorial titles are granted tenure effective September 1 of the eighth continuous year of service. In the sixth year of a faculty member professorial appointment, he or she will begin the process of selecting external reviewers in preparation for appointment.

Baruch College also has a statement of criteria for tenure and promotion in the 2024 document titled “College P&B Guidelines,” which elaborates expectations in all three areas of research, teaching, and service.

The overall expectation is that the College “appoint, tenure, and promote individuals who will be intellectually independent and capable of fulfilling leadership roles in their fields and in the College.”

The candidacy of lecturers for the Certificate of Continuous Employment is based on the performance of their position responsibilities in the areas of teaching and service.

Lecturers are granted Certificate of Continuous Employment effective September 1 of their sixth continuous year of service and College Laboratory Technicians are granted tenure effective September 1 of their sixth continuous year of service.

All College P&B recommendations are forwarded to the President for final disposition.

Documents and Resources

Guidelines and Procedures for Annual Reappointments, Tenure, CCE, and Promotion

Policies and Templates Pertaining to External Reviews

Formatting Guidelines for all Personnel Actions

Calendars for External Reviews, CP&B Committee, and Faculty Action Files

Two-Year Adjunct Appointments

PSC and CUNY entered into a new Memorandum of Understanding to extend the expired Appendix E (“Multi-Year Appointment for Teaching Adjuncts”) pilot program offering long-serving adjuncts a two-year appointment. Two-year appointments made within the new pilot program shall be available for four (4) academic years starting in Fall 2025 through Fall 2028 and shall remain in effect and subject to the terms of the new pilot program for the term of each appointment. The last two-year appointment under the new pilot program shall be Fall 2028. (PSC CUNY Contract: 3/1/2023 – 11/30/2027, MOA 2025).

According to the new contractual language, an adjunct who has taught a minimum of six (6) contact hours within the same department or credit-bearing courses in approved academic programs for at least twelve (12) of the fourteen (14) most recent consecutive semesters (excluding summer sessions) are eligible for consideration for a 2-year appointment, “provided that the adjunct was initially assigned to teach at least six contact hours in the semester(s) resulting in the lack of continuity and that the adjunct lost no more than one course owing to insufficient enrollment or reassignment of the course to another faculty member and/or up to two (2) semesters owing to medical reasons in the semester(s) at issue.” In addition, teaching adjuncts who met the eligibility requirements of the expired Appendix E pilot at the conclusion of the 2023-2024 academic year were grandfathered for eligibility purposes in the new pilot and therefore, must be considered in Spring 2025 for a 2-year appointment.

To receive a two- appointment, an adjunct who meets the service requirements must receive the positive recommendation of his/her Department Chair, Department P&B committee and of the College President, or his/her designee [e.g., Provost, Dean]. The recommendations shall be based upon an assessment of the adjunct’s performance and the fiscal and programmatic needs of the department and/or the college. Adjuncts will be notified on or before June 15th concerning appointment or non-reappointment for a two-year period.

A teaching adjunct shall be eligible for consideration for a successive two-year appointment if they have: (a) no more than one (1) unsatisfactory performance assessment during a two-year appointment; (b) no more than one (1) semester of being assigned fewer than six (6) contact hours during a two-year appointment; and (c) no declination of an assigned course during a two-year appointment.

Spring 2025 Observation Review Form
Spring 2025 Observation Review Process Timeline
New Multi-Year Appointments for Teaching Adjuncts Pilot (New Appendix E) Implementation Memo
New Appendix E Frequently Asked Questions
Comparison of New Appendix E Pilot to Expired Appendix E Pilot
Eligibility Requirements by Academic Year
Possible Outcomes for Adjuncts Eligible for, or on, 2-Year Appointments
Programmatic Review Scenarios

Interfolio

Baruch College has adopted Interfolio’s Review, Promotion & Tenure (RPT), an online environment to manage academic personnel processes for full-time faculty. Interfolio technology will facilitate faculty personnel processes online, greatly reduces the volume of paper, and make the review process significantly easier for faculty, administrators, committee members, Department Chairs, and external reviewers alike. Full-time faculty academic personnel actions such as academic leaves, tenure and promotion, promotion to Professor, Certificate of Continuous Employment, Pre-Tenure Review, Clinical and Distinguished Professor appointments, annual reappointments, and adjunct three-year appointments are processed in Interfolio’s RPT.

Baruch College has adopted Interfolio’s Faculty Activity Reporting (Faculty180) as its faculty activity reporting system. Faculty Activity Reporting (Faculty180) is a comprehensive online system that provides a centralized location for faculty to store their publications, presentations, research interests, record of teaching, service, honors, awards, professional activities, and other achievements. In addition to a more user-friendly interface, Faculty180 will generate CVs that feed into the existing Interfolio Tenure and Promotion module that we have been using since 2019 to manage faculty personnel actions. Faculty180 will also be essential to the creation of discoverable and searchable faculty profiles, which can be linked to departmental websites.

Support and information can be found online at Interfolio and through the Office of Academic Administration in the Associate Provost Office for further information on this exciting process.

We in Academic Administration are here to support you and ensure a smooth transition to Interfolio.