SLPTR Annual Report - 2024-2025

LFA Committee Annual Report  

Fiscal Year: 2024-2025 

Committee Name: Sabbatical Leave and Post-Tenure Review Committee 

Committee Chair: Scott McEathron 

Members (with terms): Scott McEathron, Chair (2023-2025), Jamene Brooks-Kieffer (2023-2025), Erin Wolfe (2024-2026), Tami Albin (2024-2026), Geoff Husic (2024-2025; serving the remainder of Marcella Huggard’s term) 

Standing Charges:  

Sabbaticals

  • The SLPTR reviews and evaluates the merit of each sabbatical proposal. It notifies each applicant in writing of its recommendation and forwards each recommendation to the Dean of Libraries, who reviews and evaluates the proposal before transmittal to the Provost for referral to the University Committee on Sabbatical Leaves for evaluation (see 8.1.1-8.2.7 of the Faculty Senate Rules and Regulations).

 

  • SLPTR addresses itself to matters of policy pertaining to the sabbatical leave system and reports its recommendations to the Dean.

Post-Tenure Review

  • SLPTR also reviews the qualifications and performance of all members of the library faculty who are scheduled to be evaluated for PTR.

 

  • SLPTR addresses itself to matters of policy pertaining to the post-tenure review and reports its recommendations to the Dean.

Standing Charges Progress/Accomplishment Summary: 

  • The committee reviewed two sabbatical files in fall 2024.
  • SLPTR held an open post-tenure-review meeting for the Libraries in fall 2024.
  • The committee reviewed four post-tenure-review files in early 2025. 

Special Charges: 

none  

Special Charges Progress/Accomplishment Summary: 

none  

Other Activities or Accomplishments: 

We requested that the 2025 committee be given at least four weeks to review sabbatical leave applications. Since this was an internal deadline, it was easy to adjust the internal deadline. Future committees should double-check the Sabbatical leave calendar once Library HR publishes it to ensure that enough time is given to the committee to review files.   

Potential Charges for Future Committees/Recommendations:  

Erin Wolfe will be going on Sabbatical Leave beginning January 2026 so will be unable to participate/vote. Also, Tami Albin will be up for Post Tenure Review in Spring 2026 so will be unable to serve/vote for that process. The minimum number of members needed to vote on a PTR case is three (Article II. LFA line 326).

Please review the Committee’s portion of the Library Governance website and the Code. Does it need updating/correcting?  

  

Prepared By: Scott R. McEathron, Chair of SLPTR