Charges:

• Receives and reviews tenure and mentor application packets for completeness per policy;

• Forwards acceptable tenure/mentor application packets to the appropriate Vice President office;

• Receives, reviews and makes recommendations for emeritus status applications;

• Receives, reviews and makes recommendations for sabbatical applications;

• At least one committee member must serve on all professional search committees;

• Recommends representatives for professional search committees who ensure adherence to NSHE and GBC professional search policies; representatives cannot be members of the department conducting the search;

• The committee chair will ensure assignments to the professional search committees are evenly distributed amongst personnel committee members;

• Reviews and recommends policy pertaining to hiring, tenure, sabbatical, emeritus status and other personnel issues;

• One or more members would serve on a Special Hearing Committee (BOR Handbook, Title 2, Ch 6.11.3);

• This committee does not consider grievance issues. Grievance procedures addressing a faculty member’s dissatisfaction with an adverse annual evaluation rating or denial of merit can be found in Section 5.9 of the Great Basin College Bylaws;

• And administration and Human Resources will provide guidance and training for the professional search processes, the role of the personnel representative on professional searches, and the reporting of improper employee conduct during professional searches.

Composition: 

• Broad participation from academic and administrative faculty;

• The chair of this committee is a member of the GBC Budget Task Force Committee;

• And the Vice-President of Business Affairs or a designee shall be ex-officio.

Important Dates:

• Tenure application packet submission: Last Friday of October by 5PM PDT

• Sabbatical application packet submission: Last Friday of October in the academic year prior to the effective date of requested leave

• Emeritus status application and recommendation packet submission: Last Friday in March