Letters Letter from candidate stating preference for open or closed meeting. Letters from external reviewers assessing the candidate's materials submitted for review. These letters should be substantially predicated on the documentation submitted to this Divisional Executive Committee, and should give detailed assessments of the candidate's research, scholarship and professional contributions. The use of superlatives without analysis of work is not helpful to the Divisional Executive Committee. See Appendix A for a suggested letter from department executive committees to reviewers.
Confidential letters are much preferred.
Candidates may submit qualifications of outside reviewers and suggest names of outside reviewers or consultation to Executive Committee. Solicitation of confidential letters will take place without consultation of the candidate and individuals who submit these will be identified only to members of the Executive Committee, the Dean, the Division of Professions Executive Committee and Campus Administration. If the letters are not confidential, copies should be included in both the master file and the abbreviated files. The Executive Committee of the department in which the candidate resides should have a process through which the confidential records remain confidential and are destroyed following Regents action. These letters are not confidential.