Promotion & Tenure

As noted from PS 36, the university seeks to employ and maintain faculty with superior qualifications to advance its mission and to nurture and support the work of those faculty members. The decision to award tenure is of distinguished and central importance. The university will do so only through a rigorous, careful process of examination and deliberation. Accordingly, the decision to tenure entails the presumption of professional excellence. It implies the expectation of an academic career that will develop and grow in quality and value, and one that will be substantially self-supervised and self-directed.

Updated: Aug. 5, 2022

Promotion/Tenure Recommendations 2022-23

Action Fall 2022 Spring 2023
Last day for meetings between
candidates and deans to occur
November 18, 2022 April 14, 2023
Recommendations due in
Academic Affairs (via LSU Box System)
November 30, 2022 April 21, 2023
Copies forwarded to Graduate School
for review by Graduate Council
December 9, 2022 April 28, 2023
Returned to Academic Affairs
from Graduate Council
February 3, 2023 May 19, 2023
Reviews by Provost, Vice Provosts, and Vice President for Research & Economic Development February 10, 2023 May 26, 2023
Collective reviews by Provost, Vice Provosts,
and Vice President for Research & Economic Development
March 10, 2023 June 16, 2023
Final Campus review by President and Provost March 17, 2023 July 7, 2023

 

Senior Instructor Recommendations 2022-23

Action Deadline
List of candidates to Academic Affairs to check eligibility (to Mallory Danzy at mallorydare@lsu.edu) November 1, 2022
Candidate reviews to be completed by Department and College March 31, 2023 
List of faculty approved for advanced working titles due to Academic Affairs (to Mallory Danzy at mallorydare@lsu.edu)   April 7, 2023 

 

Extension of the Tenure Clock

In the course of a faculty member’s time in rank, the University may grant a temporary departure from the tenure-track, commonly called “Stopping the Tenure Clock.” 

PROCEDURE TO STOP THE CLOCK