Background materials below.
Current Faculty Handbook Statement on Becoming Emeritus
Any member of the professional staff who retires after ten years in the tenured rank of university professor, professor, or associate professor and who has rendered distinguished and meritorious service to the university, may be appointed professor emeritus by the provost after recommendation by the members of the particular department and the dean of the college or school faculty to which the retiring member belonged.
What the Colleges Have to Say About Emeritus Status.
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Eligibility at Other Schools
| School | Who is Eligible |
| Brown | All tenured faculty and various others with 15+ yrs service |
| Yale | All ranks and titles |
| Columbia | Full professors (regular, clinical, adjunct, of the practice) |
| Princeton | All tenured faculty |
| Harvard | All tenured faculty |
| Penn | All tenured faculty |
| Dartmouth | All tenured faculy |
| MIT | Full Professors |
| Chicago | All tenured faculty with 20 years of service |
| Stanford | All faculty members |
| Duke | All “regular rank” faculty members. |
Read what the Faculty Handbooks for these schools have to say about emeritus/a status (pdf) .
Promotion from Assistant-to-Associate
Typically the candidate is asked to submit statements of goals and achievements in research, teaching, advising and extension/service. Documentation of success in teaching is collected, in the form of course-evaluation questionnaires and letters from both selected and randomly chosen graduate and undergraduate students. Evidence of service to the community, the department, the college, and the university is compiled. Letters are solicited from colleagues in the university and from outside experts to provide an evaluation of the quality of the candidate’s creative work and its impact on the scholarship of the field.
More from the Faculty Handbook: Criteria, Timing, Process and Appeals
Promotion from Associate-to-Full
The criteria for promotion from associate professor with tenure to professor are excellence and potential in teaching, research, or extension, and a judgment on whether the individual has fulfilled the promise on which tenure was originally granted. In all colleges, a department review is required, and a detailed rationale for the promotion must be submitted to the dean or director along with the vote of the full professors among the faculty
More from the Faculty Handbook: Criteria and Process, Timing
Faculty Handbook vs the OHR Appointments Document
The OHR appointments document needs work for it to be a useful go-to-place in all matters that concern the emeritus status. This document, which seems to be a more detailed version of the Faculty Handbook has practically nothing to say about the promotion-to-emeritus scene. We need to clarify the connection between the OHR appointments document and what appears in the Handbook. Which one lays down the law? And if we produce promotion-to-emeritus content, then where does it go?
