The Executive Committee is charged with conducting personnel reviews for members of the Department faculty and staff. Peer judgments of the adequacy of candidate's research, teaching and service records. Active mentoring of faculty preparing for tenure and or promotion. Class visitations to observe teaching. Providing both formal and informal feedback to all faculty and staff within the Department as part of various review processes.
Confidential letters are much preferred .
During the list development phase, the candidate is strongly encouraged to consult with Departmental colleagues in the same or related areas of research and scholarship. The Committee reserves the right to add names to the list that may not have been suggested by the candidate if it feels that to be appropriate. With respect to faculty, UWM Policies and-Procedures have extended to candidates seeking promotion to full professor the right to an open meeting of the Divisional Executive Committee. However, the Departmental Executive Committee is not obliged to honor a request for an open meeting when considering promotion to full professor. Should the Departmental Meeting be closed and the Divisional Meeting open, then all confidential letters of evaluation used at the Departmental level will be replaced with open letters of evaluation after the Departmental review and prior to the Divisional review.