Resources, Policies & Forms

Post-Tenure Review

Background

The 2022 Florida Legislature amended Florida Statutes Section 1001.706 authorizing the BOG to adopt a post-tenure review regulation. The BOG, in turn, adopted requiring SUS institutions with tenured faculty to adopt a post-tenure review process by October 16, 2023.  In response, USF has developed a that was approved by the Board of Trustees on August 22nd, 2023.


Procedure for Post-Tenure Review Development

Provost Mohapatra constituted a 12-member on May 4th, 2023, which included administrative and faculty representation from across all campuses at USF including USF Health. The Workgroup was charged with developing regulations and procedures for an effective post-tenure review process at USF and met nearly weekly during the months of May and June to fulfill the charge and presented the draft regulation to the Provost on July 6th.  

Instrumental in this process was the valuable input provided by Internal Audit, the Faculty Senate Executive Committee, the Council of Deans, and the Office of General Counsel.


Principles

The developed for post-tenure review have been foundational to this process. 


Selection of Faculty for Post-Tenure Review

The process for  selecting faculty for Post-Tenure Review at USF for the 2024-2025 cycle is listed below. The will be continually updated as the process continues.

Process for selecting faculty for Post-Tenure Review (PTR) at USF for the 2024-2025 cycle

1. On August 22nd, 2024, the Office of Decision Support compiled a list of tenured faculty at USF across all campuses including USF Health. The list included tenure date, most recent hire date, most recent promotion date, and relevant administrative appointment dates.

2. Tenured faculty on the list were then classified as:

- 鈥淩equired Cohort鈥: those with 5 years following their last comprehensive review
or 5 years following the end of an administrative appointment.

- 鈥淓xcluded鈥: those with less than 5 years since their last comprehensive review or 
administrative appointment.

- "Eligible鈥: those who had more than 5 years following their last comprehensive 
review and who were not otherwise excluded were considered eligible for 
random selection for post-tenure review.

3. The Provost鈥檚 Office organized the list and between August 22nd and September 11th, worked with colleges to verify their constituent faculty information. Colleges additionally noted faculty who had documented reasons for exclusion per the BOG and/or USF PTR regulations and faculty were reclassified accordingly.

4. After verification by colleges, a was created listing the total number of faculty by college, as well as the required cohort, eligible faculty, and excluded faculty numbers. Additionally, columns in the table indicate the number of faculty who have undergone comprehensive reviews in the last 5 years. Subtracting that from the total tenured faculty, it was determined that 100 faculty will undergo Post-Tenure Review this cycle, of which 45 will be selected in a random drawing.

5. Subsequent to the final verification of faculty information by the colleges, a Teams
meeting was scheduled on Thursday, September 19th at 2:30pm for the random selection of faculty from those who were eligible for selection. The meeting included representatives from the Provost鈥檚 Office, USF Health, ODS, IT, HR, and the Faculty Senate.

6. At the meeting, the list of eligible faculty was rearranged in ascending order by employee ID number and sequentially numbered 1-215 representing the pool for random selection.

7. IT used a random number sequence generator to provide a random number sequence for the priority order. The pool was then arranged according to the priority order determined by the random number selection.

8. The faculty were then grouped by college to ensure that the faculty chosen in each college was equitably distributed to meet the 20% requirement for USF.

9. Subsequent to the meeting, the list of the required cohort and those randomly selected were combined for each college to provide a list of faculty selected for post-tenure review. The respective lists were then communicated to the deans of each college on Thursday, September 19th in order to inform their selected faculty.  

The operational details from the 2023-2024 PTR cycle can be found . 

The process for selection followed the same steps from the .

For questions regarding the Post-Tenure Review process please contact Dr. Stephen Stark (Academic Affairs) or Dr. Javier Cuevas (USF Health).